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Kardashian West tweeted that she would ask her legal team to look into Brown's case.

The system has failed. It’s heart breaking to see a young girl sex trafficked then when she has the courage to fight back is jailed for life! We have to do better & do what’s right. I’ve called my attorneys yesterday to see what can be done to fix this. #FreeCyntoiaBrown pic.twitter.com/73y26mLp7u

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) November 21, 2017

A representative for Kardashian West confirmed to ABC News she had asked her lawyers to reach out to Brown's attorneys.

In December 2015, Brown earned her associate's degree from Lipscomb University while incarcerated, her attorney said.

Making her eligible for parole sooner \"is not about letting people walk away, or not holding someone responsible for the consequences of their actions,\" Levick said, but rather about making her sentence \"proportionate\" to her age and the context in which the crime was committed.

\"She comes out at 67, she will have lost untold opportunities to engage in life, to potentially have a family, be married, to continue her education, to give back to her community, to have normal social interactions, to develop friendships,\" Levick said.

Levick said that there are \"scores\" of people serving decades-long sentences for crimes they committed as teenagers that also need to be examined.

\"At the end of the day, the U.S. is an incredibly punitive country. For the most part, no sentence is too long,\" Levick said. \"That filters down, unfortunately, to kids who are tried in the adult criminal justice system, and who are, for the most part, subject to the same kinds of sentencing options -- except for death -- that adults are.\"

\"If her case pushes this conversation to the front page, that's a good thing. Because it's a conversation that we need to have,\" Levick added.

A representative for Rihanna had not responded to ABC News' request for comment at the time of publication.

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