Copyright © 2002-2013 PendulumFoundation.com. All rights reserved. Read our Terms of Use   A COMMUNITY OUTREACH ORGANIZATION Because everyone deserves a chance Established as a non-profit in 2001, Pendulum is dedicated to educating the public about the issue of children in adult prisons, and in  transforming the lives of all those youthful offenders who are currently behind bars.  Colorado has approximately 50 juveniles serving life without parole (LWOP). Pendulum stays in close written contact with those young men and  women, plus other youths serving long prison sentences. Because of our unusual access to offenders and their families, we can provide  comprehensive background data for researchers documenting the lives of children in adult prisons.  We continue to receive extensive  international media interest. Radio, television and print reporters from Germany, Austria, Great Britain and other industrialized nations have  profiled our young men and women, as well as our organization. In  addition, we’ve received local, regional and national coverage.  The most extensive coverage has been Frontline’s, WHEN KIDS GET  LIFE, a powerful 90 minute documentary that details the lives of our  Colorado juvenile LWOP. (Accessed through PBS.org/ type in  Frontline)  Thanks to Pendulum’s efforts, Colorado is the only state that has  lowered juvenile LWOP. Currently, no child can serve more than 40  years without an opportunity for parole. That is far too much time, but  it’s a start. We were also instrumental in the idea behind Colorado’s  Juvenile Clemency Board – the first of its kind in the nation.  There are several other states looking to us to help them provide a  similar board as an interim step.  Currently, we are coordinating the efforts for a Battered Kids Clemency  Project, and following the Supreme Court’s June ruling on the  constitutionality of juvenile life without parole, will introduce legislation  to bring Colorado into compliance with the ruling.  We at the Pendulum Foundation believe that the only real prison is the prison of the heart. Our mission is to physically, emotionally and spiritually free all of our young men and women whose childhoods have been lost, and who have been thrown away in Colorado’s prison system.