Mississippi prisons

JAY-Z and Yo Gotti have teamed with lawyers representing the 152 inmates inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman to file a second lawsuit in federal court over the “inhumane and dangerous conditions of confinement” in prisons. According to CBS News, the inmates say they’ve been denied adequate medical and mental health care, fed contaminated food and retaliated against for speaking with their […]

Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Roc Nation signee, Mario “Yo Gotti” Mims, used their platforms to amplify the troubling findings at Mississippi prisons, where a surge of violence left five male prisoners dead within the past two weeks. The suit filed on Tuesday names Pelicia Hall, the head of the Mississippi State Department of Corrections (MDOC) […]