Americans Freed Her from Prison—And for Good Reason: The Redemption Story of Cyntoia Brown
05/13/25 • 38 min
On this episode of Our American Stories, in 2018, the hashtag #FreeCyntoiaBrown went viral, making her one of the most well-known inmates in the world. Here's Cyntoia with her story of trauma, incarceration, and redemption.
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On this episode of Our American Stories, in 2018, the hashtag #FreeCyntoiaBrown went viral, making her one of the most well-known inmates in the world. Here's Cyntoia with her story of trauma, incarceration, and redemption.
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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Our American Stories - Americans Freed Her from Prison—And for Good Reason: The Redemption Story of Cyntoia Brown
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This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show. And our favorite stories to tell are just ordinary American redemption stories, second chances, even third chances that this country allows people to have and to pursue. It's a beautiful part of our nature. Saintoya Brown served fifteen years of a life sentence for killing a forty three year old real estate agent when she was sixteen years
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