Ex-inmate Cyntoia Brown-Long argues for redemption in memoir

In this Sept. 20, 2019, photo, Cynthia Brown-Long poses in Nashville, Tenn. For nearly half of her life, Brown-Long was locked up. At 16, she was arrested for robbing and killing a man she says picked her up for sex and later sentenced to life in prison. But two months ago, Brown-Long, 31, walked out of a Tennessee prison after successfully petitioning the Tennessee governor for her clemency.

But now she’s speaking for herself in her memoir, “Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System,” released Tuesday, that goes deep into the patterns of sexual and drug abuse, predatory men and a childhood raised in the juvenile justice system. “I can’t recall a time where people at school or people in the court system actually listened to me and why I felt how I did,” Brown said.

Brown-Long said many years later, while she was in prison, she realized what sex trafficking actually looked like and how easy it was for men to prey on her. Police found Allen nude in bed with a gunshot wound to the back of his head, his hands clasped together near his head as if he were sleeping. “The media has never really wanted to look at the facts of the case,” Robinson said. “They just took her word, or her people’s word, for what happened.”

Brown-Long had a long road to redemption in prison, but she found people and institutions who gave her opportunities to grow and learn from her mistakes. She earned an associate and bachelor’s degree from Lipscomb University while in prison, her adoptive mother became her rock and she found her faith as a Christian.

She was only 16. She deserves a second chance.

This world is run by criminals who let murderers like this woman go free....

What a beautiful young lady.

A freed Murderer!

'Redemption' is not the word you were looking for, . Do better. Cyntoia Brown Long deserves it!

She should do adult films

Not going to judge. Her burden to live with.

'Metro Nashville police Detective Charles Robinson, one of the detectives who first interviewed Brown-Long in 2004, said her story didn’t match up “with what I saw in the crime scene, bottom line. And that’s how I knew she was lying.”'

Re-word the headline pls

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