Nashville, Teen – The Tennsse Board of Directors recommended a conditional release on Tuesday with an amnesty for the Car -Roll, a citizen of Nashville, spoke publicly about his criminal record and what I took to overcome. The Board of Directors leaves the final decision regarding the amnesty of Bill Lee.
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The rapper who turned to the country wants to be able to travel internationally to perform and share his message about redemption, after spending time behind the bars as a young man.
Jelly Roll on stage during the Pollstar Awards on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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The Board of Directors issued its unanimously binding recommendation after a hearing that lasted for about an hour and 45 minutes with many witnesses, including Nashville Sharif Darwun Hall, calling for a 40 -year -old musician named Jason Deford. A member of the board of directors settled from the vote.
Jelly Roll stormed the music of the countryside with the album 2023 “Whitsitt Chapel” and the songs like “Need a Fire”. He won multiple CMT Awards, CMA Award and won four Grammy nominations, including a new artist of the year.
“This was incredible,” he said. “I pray to God to pass. But today it was special for me, regardless of.”
His most dangerous condemnation includes a robbery at the age of 17 and drug charges in 23 years. In the first case, one of his acquaintances helped Jelly Roll and the entry of two other young men to a house in 2002. Both were carrying weapons, although the gel had not been armed. They demanded money, and they got $ 350 and a wallet without money in it. Because the victims knew female knowledge, she was arrested and Roll immediately. He was sentenced to one year in prison and an additional time under observation.
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Later, in 2008, the police in a patrol found marijuana and broken cocaine in his car. He was sentenced to eight years imprisonment of the supervision that the court ordered.
He also has misdemeanor crimes to lead them without a license and possess drug tools.
He told me, a fans, that every case seeks to compassion, as pardon is of the same importance and is an overall process.
“Reports about Jelly Roll, this is encouraging to put it, but there are steps that have not yet occurred in this case,” reporters told reporters on Tuesday.
Jelly Roll told the council that while he was in a detention center, he fell in love with the composition of songs. “It started as a passionate project that I felt treatment and it will end up changing my life in ways that I have never dreamed of doors that can be imagined and never opened. I have never thought about it.”
These days, prisons and rehabilitation centers often visit before performing concerts. He bought restaurants for this day to feed people who have homeless and play basketball with children at a youth center on the same day he did in Wenipeg. He said that he is generally not looking for news coverage when he makes these visits.
As part of the amnesty application, friends and civil leaders wrote to the Board of Directors about the transformation of Jelly Roll and his generosity. Hall, who runs Nashville prison, wrote that Jelly Roll was waking up in one of the prisons he managed. The CEO of Live Nation Entertainment and President Michael Rabino also wrote in his favor, pointing to all the money he presented from his performance to charitable societies of young people at risk.
One of the reasons that made Jelly Roll to the need to pardon is to be able to travel to Canada for a performance, which is difficult for his criminal record. Currently, he will need to apply for a special permit that can include long waiting times for a decision, according to a migration lawyer with his lifting package.
“I want to be an inspiration for the people who are now as I used to tell them that the change is really possible,” Jelly Roll told the council. “One of the reasons why I ask for your recommendation to this pardon is that I look forward to taking my message from redemption through the strength of music and faith through the rest of the world.”
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He said he would use pardon for more than a tour.
He said, “I still use this pardon, on God’s willingness, to go to a missionary work in the fifties and sixties of the last century,” he said.
Because of its criminal record, the council told that every time he travels, “he takes a team of lawyers and a mountain of paper work to secure my entry into those countries.” He said he was recently able to take his first tour in Canada and took his first trip to the United Kingdom, where he talked about the rehabilitation program.
The conditional release council began thinking about requesting pardon for Jelly Roll in October 2024, which represents at least five years of its sentence.
Li has issued more than 90 amnesty since he took office in 2019, all since 2021.