"When people watch this, I hope they can think a little differently about how we incarcerate people and why," Etheridge told Jezebel at the documentary's premiere at Tribeca Film Festival., a two-part documentary series starring Melissa Etheridge premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
In Part I of the series, the audience is introduced to the women who began writing to Etheridge while incarcerated at the facility. Behind their—in many cases, unjustly exorbitant—sentences are staggering stories of sexual abuse, absent parents, and poverty. Though female incarceration rates have seen a 700 percent increase since 1980, a number of the women seen in the series have quite hearteningly found renewed hope for redemption in Etheridge’s responses.
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