Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.

And joining us on this episode is Sintoya Brown Long, who was sentenced to life in prison for a murder

she committed at the age of 16. Her case became national news when celebrities like Kim

Kardashian and activists made the hashtag Free Centoya go viral in 2017. She was granted full

clemency after having served 15 years walking out a free woman on August 7th, 2019.

Centoya is now a prison reform advocate and the author of the book Free Centoya, My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System.

She's also the subject of the Netflix documentary, Murder to Mercy.

Centaia, thank you so much for joining us.

It's a pleasure to talk with you.

Thank you for having me.

Your story has so many interesting and heartbreaking aspects to it.

So tell us what happened the night you killed Johnny Allen when you were only 16.

So when I was 16 years old, I was on the what happened the night you killed Johnny Allen when you were only 16?

So when I was 16 years old, I was on the run.

I was living on the streets of Nashville as a runaway.

And really what happened that night goes back even further than just at one point in time, as most things do.

And the things that I was learning, the people that I was around while I was on the streets

to Nashville led me to become involved with this man that I thought was my boyfriend.

He actually was not.

This man was trafficking me.

He had manipulated me into thinking it was okay

to sell my body to random men.

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