Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken

Five female residents from the Topeka Correctional Facility write letters to musician Melissa Etheridge, who uses their letters as inspiration to create and perform an original song for them. Having recently lost her son to opioids, Etheridge works to understand and interrupt the cycle of addiction while connecting with these women who, so often, are forgotten by society. With female incarceration rates up 700 percent since 1980, Etheridge bonds with the women through the conduit of music as an act of empathy, understanding, and hope.

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