Cyntonia Brown Is Free... From Tennessee's Prison Industrial Complex, As Of This Morning.

She served 15 full years, of a would-be life sentence.

For acts she committed at age 16. [There will be no graphic, today.]

She killed a "john" -- one who had paid her, for sex -- when. she. was. 16. That made her. . . a sex-trafficking victim.

In most states -- "the john", himself, even back then -- would have been chargeable with statutory rape.

Not so, in Tennessee -- as a child of color -- she got natural life in prison -- at 16.

But she is a free woman, this morning.

Justice delayed, is sometimes. . . justice, denied -- Thurgood Marshall, and Dr. King — were. . . right.



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