{"id":2453239,"date":"2020-01-14T20:15:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=937891"},"modified":"2020-01-14T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:15:29","slug":"yo-gotti-jay-zs-team-roc-sue-mississippi-prison-officials-over-prison-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/yo-gotti-jay-zs-team-roc-sue-mississippi-prison-officials-over-prison-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo Gotti, Jay-Z\u2019s Team Roc Sue Mississippi Prison Officials Over Prison Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yo Gotti<\/a> and Jay-Z<\/a>\u2019s Team Roc are suing Mississippi prison officials over \u201cinhumane\u201d prison conditions, Clarion Ledger<\/em><\/a> reports. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday against Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Pelicia Hall and Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary of Parchman Marshal Turner on behalf of 29 inmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaintiffs\u2019 lives are in peril,\u201d the lawsuit states per the Clarion Ledger<\/em>. \u201cIndividuals held in Mississippi\u2019s prisons are dying because Mississippi has failed to fund its prisons, resulting in prisons where violence reigns because prisons are understaffed. In the past two weeks alone, five men incarcerated in Mississippi have died as the result of prison violence. These deaths are a direct result of Mississippi\u2019s utter disregard for the people it has incarcerated and their constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the deaths, there are an unknown number of individuals who were wounded during the recent outbreak of violence.<\/p>\n

The complaint accuses the prison official defendants of failing \u201cto protect against prison-related violence and when prison conditions fail to meet basic human needs.\u201d It claims the inmates\u2019 Eighth Amendment rights are being violated. Due to the inadequate funding that has led to prisons being understaffed, violence is prevalent and inmates \u201clive in squalor, endangering their physical and mental health.\u201d According to the complaint, black mold, rat and mice infestations, flooding, and units with no running water or electricity for days at a time are among the deplorable conditions inmates are subjected to.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit requests a judge to order the defendants to enact policies that will protect inmates from violence, provide an adequate amount of properly trained staff as well as provide safe and clean conditions along with other basic human needs.<\/p>\n

Last week, Jay-Z and Yo Gotti penned a letter to then-Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, which threatened to take legal action if the state\u2019s prison conditions were not adequately improved. Attorney Alex Spiro, who represents Team Roc, the philanthropic division of Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation and one of the plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys, told Clarion Ledger<\/em> that the plaintiffs are located at Parchman, which is where much of the recent violence has occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey share the common injustice of being in a facility that\u2019s inhumane,\u201d Spiro said. \u201cWe lock these people up and forget about them. I\u2019m hopeful that these sorts of actions give them hope and give them oversight to a prison system that desperately needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yo Gotti and Jay-Z\u2019s Team Roc are suing Mississippi prison officials over \u201cinhumane\u201d prison conditions, Clarion Ledger reports. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday against Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Pelicia Hall and Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary of Parchman Marshal Turner on behalf of 29 inmates. \u201cPlaintiffs\u2019 lives are in peril,\u201d the lawsuit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2453239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 18:45:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}