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Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole

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Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole
Premiere April 30, 2019
Network/Provider A&E
Style 60-minute true crime documentary
Company The Intellectual Property Corporation
Seasons 2
Episodes 19 (through season 2)
Status Currently in limbo, has not yet been renewed or cancelled.
Origin USA
Official Site A&E

Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole (formerly known as Lost for Life) tells the stories of convicted juvenile offenders who received mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole. Due to a recent United States Supreme Court ruling that such sentences for minors are unconstitutional, these inmates can now petition the court for a new sentencing hearing.

Until recently, there were thousands in the United States serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes they committed when they were seventeen years old or younger. In 2012, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Miller v. Alabama, that mandatory life terms without parole for juveniles were a violation of the 8th Amendment. In 2016, in Montgomery v. Louisiana, the Court ruled that their holding in Miller v. Alabama must be applied retroactively, giving those previously convicted child offenders the opportunity to plead their cases for possible resentencing. The focus of the series will be split between the facts of these brutal crimes when they were originally committed, combined with new evidence that has come to light, and the real-time updates regarding potential releases, parole hearings, and resentencing as they currently unfold. What happens when kids commit horrific crimes? This series tackles controversial questions from multiple perspectives, including leading psychologists and experts in the field, along with local media, law enforcement and those closest to these cases as they explore the dark complexity of the repercussions when kids kill, and the painful lifelong effects for all of those involved on both sides.

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Seasons

Season  Premiere Finale #
A&E
Season One April 30, 2019 July 2, 2019 9
Season Two August 26, 2021 October 7, 2021 10

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