Jay-Z & Yo Gotti File Lawsuit On Behalf of Mississippi Inmates
Jay-Z, Yo Gotti &yo go Team Roc File Lawsuit On Behalf of Mississippi Inmates
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Jay-Z and Yo Gotti are honoring their promise to inmates at several Mississippi prisons who are being exposed to deplorable and inhuman conditions by assisting the inmates in filing a law suit against the prison officials.
According toĀ TMZ, on Tuesday (Jan. 14)Ā Team Roc, the philanthropic branch ofĀ Roc Nation, and its high-powered attorney, Alex Spiro, filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of the prisoners after a spike in deadly violence at several Mississippi state prisons.
āIndividuals held in Mississippiās prisons are dying because Mississippi has failed to fund its prisons, resulting in prisons where violence reigns because prisons are understaffed,ā the lawsuit alleges.
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āIn Parchman, the units are subject to flooding. Black mold festers. Rats and mice infest the prison. Units lack running water and electricity for days at a time,ā attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.
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As of press time Parchman nor the Mississippi prison systems have responded to the lawsuit, but many civil rights organizations are calling out prison officials for violating the Eighth Amendment, which bans cruel and unusual punishment.
The lawsuit seeks damages for the inmates, and an order forcing Mississippiās Dept. of Corrections to lay out a plan to address all the issues, especially their plans to increase staff and clean up the sewage.
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