Next week, after spending half of her life in prison, a woman named Centoya Brown is

going to walk free.

She was incarcerated when she was just 16.

We told her story back in January, and with Centoya just days away from release, I thought

it was a good time to play this show for you one more time.

Back in January, lawmakers in Tennessee gathered in downtown Nashville to make a request.

And we're here today to appeal to Governor Haslam's heart and to his sense of justice

to Grant.

This was the last stitch effort to convince the outgoing Republican governor to grant

clemency to a 30-year-old woman who's been in prison nearly half her life.

Her name is Centoya Brown.

It was a horrible crime, but we have to ask ourselves what was a grown man doing to be

it with a 16-year-old girl.

Yes, yes.

Still a child.

Centoya ended up in prison because as a teenager, she killed a man who paid her $150 for sex.

The police said this was a robbery, a murder.

Centoya said it was self-defense.

The state representative who held this press conference said it almost didn't matter.

In Centoya's case, she was sentenced to a lifetime in prison.

She's already served almost 15 years in prison.

And to keep her in prison for 51 years is double travesty to a young victim of sexual

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