Country music sensation Jelly Roll traveled back to the Nashville juvenile detention center where he once served time to open a new songwriting program that will help incarcerated youth find their musical voices.
Helping with the unveiling was fellow country music star ERNEST and Nashville Hall of Fame songwriter Jeffrey Steele.
Jelly Roll kicked off the opening of a series of new studios with a gathering on April 18 that included Nashville mayor Freddie O’Connell (D) as well as other country music artists.
Jelly Roll spoke about his own time spent at the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center.
“When I was in juvenile, we never got a visitor. We never had a mentor, nobody ever came to see us,” he said, according to a Country Now report.
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