Great news. We are a nominee for a Webby Award in the Film & Video - Documentary Series category for our seven-part series: “Sentencing Children.” This series, which features the story of Cyntoia Brown, went viral last year when Rihanna, Kim Kardas...
Lawyers for Cyntoia Brown, a Nashville woman serving a life sentence in prison for a murder committed at age 16 and whose cause has been championed by celebrities including Rihanna, have filed an appeal...
The jury sentenced Brown under the law at the time giving her life in prison. She’d only be eligible for parole is after serving 51 years. She would be 67. Birman's film on Cyntoia helped change Tennessee law for children like her in 2011. Now,...
Under Tennessee law, a child can be tried in adult court, and if convicted of first degree murder, can be sentenced to life in prison, or life with a possibility of parole after 51 years. State legislators think that law is too harsh.
