Jelly Roll has kept his promise to open a music studio in Davidson County Juvenile Detention Centre in Nashville. It's the facility where he spent some time during his youth. To celebrate the opening of the new studio space, Jelly Roll teamed up with the Beat of Life Organization, a non-profit that aims to create songwriting/music programs for vulnerable populations around the country, to host a "Redemption Songs" event. It featured Jelly Roll, along with a number of artists, volunteers and 35 hit songwriters. Also in attendance were Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell, Ernest, Juvenile Court's Judge Sheila Calloway and several music industry VIPs and correctional leaders. "When I was in juvenile, we never got a visitor. We never had a mentor, nobody ever came to see us," Jelly Roll explained. "To be able to come back on these terms is a dream that I have and this is only the beginning." He revealed plans to build transitional homes for kids, to build preventative community centres and "put millions and millions and tens of millions of dollars back into this city directly for youth because they are our future mayors, they are our future residents of the United States."