Jay-Z and Yo Gotti Are Suing Mississippi Prison Officials. Here’s Why
Page Six is reporting that Jay-Z and Yo Gotti have filed a lawsuit on behalf of 29 inmates in Mississippi who claim that their “lives are in peril.”
Their complaint has to do with the “inhumane conditions” and rampant violence in prison.
Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, claims inmates at the state’s prisons “are dying because Mississippi has failed to fund its prisons, resulting in prisons where violence reigns because prisons are understaffed.”
Five prisoners in Mississippi “have died as a result of prison violence” in the only the last two weeks, according to the suit. “These deaths are a direct result of Mississippi’s utter disregard for the people it has incarcerated and their constitutional rights.”
The complaint also says that the recent deaths “is the culmination of years of severe understaffing and neglect at Mississippi’s prisons.”
“As Mississippi has incarcerated increasing numbers of people, it has dramatically reduced its funding of prisons,” continued the suit, which also claims that the underfunding “forces people held in Mississippi’s prison to live in squalor, endangering their physical and mental health.”
Jay-Z and Yo Gotti are not named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, but they are the ones behind it.
Good for them! This is the definition of using your power for good.