Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken

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.

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.

Directed by Brian Morrow and Amy Scott and produced by Jonathan Lynch for Shark Pig Studios. 

Executive producers include Kathy Rivkin Daum and William Kennedy for BMG Films, Deb Klein for Primary Wave Music, Bruce Gillmer and Michael Maniaci for MTV Entertainment Studios and Melissa Etheridge.