Stickup Kid Frontline : Season 32 Episode 19
Not Rated PBS 1h 00m
Aired: December 17th, 2014 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
Alonza Thomas was 15 when he was convicted of armed robbery and possession of a firearm and sent to an adult prison--California's Tehachapi "supermax"--under a new state law allowing juveniles to be sentenced to adult prison for violent crimes. He was given 13 years. Thomas is interviewed, as are his mother, his lawyer and various proponents and opponents of the new law.
