
Juvenile Justice in Context
The story of Keith Hicks
History of Documentary:
1994 - Keith Hicks participates in a gang-related homicide. He is 17 years old.
1996 - Keith is sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole
2012 - Supreme Court declares Juvenile Life Sentences w/o Parole (JLWOP) unconstitutional. Keith is entitled to a resentencing hearing (after another ruling in 2016 that made the 2012 decision retroactive)
2016 - PlaceLab (PL) and Dr. Eva Simms, in response to a request from the community, begin making the documentary
2017-2019 - Christian Nowlin, a film maker whose younger brother was friends with Keith, joined PL and set about creating the documentary as it currently stands
2020 - The Elsinore-Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice (EBTT) begins working with the issues brought up in the documentary