At the groundbreaking of Nashville’s new Youth Campus for Empowerment, Jelly Roll, the artist behind “Save Me,” reflected on his own past. “I marked my 14th, 15th, and 16th birthdays there,” he shared at the event. Hailing from Antioch, Tennessee, Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, knows the old Davidson County Juvenile Justice Center all too well, having been incarcerated there multiple times as a youth.
Committed to giving back, the 39-year-old CMT Music Award winner is not only supporting but also partnering with the city to finance the new center designed to rehabilitate and support young people in detention. “The only reason I wasn’t there at 17 was because I was tried as an adult,” he told WZTV, the local Fox affiliate.
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