“In today’s unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court explained that, under state law, a life sentence is a determinate sentence of 60 years,” the court wrote. “However, the sixty-year sentence can be reduced by up to 15 percent, or 9 years, by earning various sentence credits (good behavior. & getting involved in prison based education programs while incarcerated) Therefore, the Supreme Court concluded that a defendant serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder committed on or after July 1, 1995, may be eligible for release after serving at least 51 years of the sentence.“
For those of you who haven’t yet caught up to this story:
Cyntoia Brown was a 16 yr old girl, who at the time of the incident was living in a room at a Nashville InTown Suites with Allen (the man who propositioned her for sex) because her pimp and boyfriend Garion McGlothen, nick-named “Kut Throat,” insisted that she needed to earn money.
After Allen took her to his house, he showed Cyntoia multiple guns, including shotguns and rifles. Later in bed, as she described in court, he grabbed her violently by the genitals, his demeanor became threatening and, fearing for her life, she took a gun out of her purse and shot him.
Call Governor Bill Haslam (615)-741-2001. she has a Clemency hearing May 23rd. DEMAND JUSTICE!!
#StayWoke
The parole board split on whether Cyntoia should be granted clemency. /BillHaslam can still grant her clemency before he leaves in January. You can reach him at: phone #: (615) 741-2001; e-mail: bill.haslam@tn.gov
Real talk tho, why haven’t I died yet???? Like bro I’ve overdosed expecting to not wake up in the morning and then I wake up and life’s like “"rise and shine bitch”“” like let me die??
Anonymous asked: After the rape, I developed pretty sever depression. It’s been so long, I have watched so much of my life go by me while I’ve been too tired to live it. I don’t even remember how to function like a normal person anymore. I feel like I’m letting everyone I care about down because I just can’t get past this. I don’t know what to do. I feel like everyone’s lives would be easier without me.
“There is nothing that can take the pain away. But eventually you will find a way to live with it. There will be nightmares. And every day when you wake up, it will be the first thing you think about. Until one day, it will be the second thing.”
Someone once sent me that quote, after I was raped. It’s been a few years now since they sent it, and I have held onto it the whole time.
And you know what? It’s true. I remember the Thanksgiving after I was raped I went home for the holiday, and I literally wanted to die. I couldn’t concentrate on anything. I didn’t want to be anywhere but gone. I wanted to literally die. The only reason I didn’t kill myself is because I was with my family. And every single day that month, when I woke up in the morning, it was the first thing I thought about.
But then one day, a few months later, it was the second thing.
And now, I still have monthly nightmares, but you know what? When I wake up in the mornings, there are some mornings where I don’t even think about it until that night. Or even the next day. Or the day after that.
Just when you don’t think you can get past it, is the moment when you realize you can. Stay until the day when you wake up and it’s the second thing on your mind.
Then stay past that day. Because one day, it will still hurt, but you won’t want to die anymore. Because living will have become something more than just getting through each day.
Radiohead has this great lyric - “I’m not really living/I’m just killing time.”
I promise you that one day, it will be the opposite for you. You will be living. Not killing time. <3
