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Cyntoia Brown smiles at family members during a May 2018 clemency hearing at Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville. She was serving a life sentence for killing a man in 2004 when she was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim.

Cyntoia Brown smiles at family members during a May 2018 clemency hearing at Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville. She was serving a life sentence for killing a man in 2004 when she was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim.

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Tenn. inmate granted clemency credits church-affiliated program with changing her life

Each semester, the LIFE program at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., which is associated with Churches of Christ, pairs traditional students with inmates serving time in the Tennessee Prison for Women.