Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge recalls growing up in Leavenworth and seeing the prison from her backyard in the official trailer for Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken. The documentary series spotlights Etheridge’s work with Topeka Correctional Facility residents and explores the increase in female incarceration over the past four decades.
Brian Morrow and Amy Scott directed the two-part docuseries, with Shark Pig Studios’ Jonathan Lynch producing. Etheridge serves as an executive producer along with Primary Wave Music’s Deb Klein; BMG Films’ Kathy Rivkin Daum and William Kennedy; and MTV Entertainment Studios’ Bruce Gillmer and Michael Maniaci.
“Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken tells an inspiring story of healing and transcendence through the power of music when five female residents from the Topeka Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Kansas, write letters to Etheridge that she then uses 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,” reads Paramount+’s synopsis. “Additionally, the docuseries explores themes of female incarceration, redemption, substance abuse, generational trauma, grief and healing. 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.”
The docuseries premieres on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 on Paramount+.
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