Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole

About Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole

The individual stories of previously convicted child offenders sentenced to mandatory life terms, without parole, who are now seeking resentencing on the heels of a recent United States Supreme Court ruling. While some may be resentenced to life, others could be immediately released or given a new sentence that makes them eligible for parole.

Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole is a crime, documentary, and reality series made for A&E. It has run to 2 seasons and 19 episodes since April 2019. That is around 10 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under young offender, life imprisonment, and resentencing. In the United States it streams on A&E, A&E Crime Central Apple TV channel, and Amazon Prime Video.

It carries a TV-14 rating.