With the backing of JAY-Z and Yo Gotti, the social justice department of Roc Nation has filed another lawsuit against the Mississippi Department of Corrections. It marks the second suit they’ve filed this year.
Team Roc — the philanthropic arm of Roc Nation — wants the “barbaric” conditions at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman addressed immediately on behalf of 152 inmates currently housed there. Eighteen inmates have died throughout the Mississippi correctional system, with the majority of those deaths taking place at Parchman.
According to a Team Roc press release, inmates alleged “the food is adulterated with rat feces, cockroaches, rocks, bird droppings, and other foreign matter” and many inmates are “in dire need of medical care for cancer, lupus, serious heart defects.”
Parchman’s conditions reportedly also lack clean water, acceptable food, electricity, heat, clothing, healthcare and other basic needs, leading to internal riots. At least nine inmate deaths from suicides, homicides and other incidents have been categorized as “natural deaths.”
“The toilets routinely back up and flood the prison cells, which allows fecal matter, urine and water to cover the floors and drain out into the housing unit’s common space…the portable water system at Parchman is contaminated with human feces, presumably from the sewer system,” the suit reads. “Prisoner-on-prisoner violence is rampant, and, at times, is facilitated by corrupt guards seeking to curry favor with inmates.”
Team Roc and attorney Alex Spiro filed the first suit against the Mississippi DOC last month, claiming the recent inmate deaths are “a direct result of Mississippi’s utter disregard for the people it has incarcerated and their constitutional rights.”
DOC Commissioner Pelicia Hall and Mississippi State Penitentiary Superintendent Marshall Turner are named as defendants. However, the Mississippi DOC said the outbreak of violence is due to gang activity — not poor conditions.
Here’s a great idea, don’t break the fucking law and you won’t have to worry about that shit. Dumbasses
Terrible solution. I’m glad you are not in office and have zero power.
Ohh yeah, because killers and child rapists deserve so much better!…. Non violent criminals? Of course. Violent criminals? Nope. We should have violent criminals together, and non violent should be in much better conditions, less jail cells. Cells are for animals that are not civilized.
fuck off kook. Ive been arrested and thorwn in Jail for fucking nothing! If it happened to you , you would cry even harder into your mummies pillows.
Fun fact 67% of crimes are committed by white people and black get found guilty for 90%
Do you understand what “disproportionate” means?
Blacks make up 13% of the population, yet commit 50% of the murders.
Bloomberg is a complete moron, but check the statistics he cited: in NYC, approximately 95% of victims and perpetrators of violence were black and brown.
Do some independent research you suck hole. And don’t blame poverty- there are plenty of poor whites- yet the crime stats speak for themselves.
Gay Z is such a leftist tool. He has a social justice arm of his shit show company? Run by who? The same idiots that run Obozo the clowns foundation that’s who. It’s all bs. Nobody told these thugs that jail was the Four Seasons so wtf do you expect? Stay your ass out of a life of crime if you don’t want to be throw in the system.
Obama did nothing about all these issues in the black community for 8 years, what a tool and sellout
You honestly can’t win with these “covert racists” that come to predominately black websites and comment. They are so hypocritical. They say black folks should help each other in situations like this,then complain when they do. I realized a certain dynamic when it comes to a lot of whites,even the “seemingly” non racist ones. They hate for black people to help,promote,do business with,show love to,and encourage unity and love to BLACK PEOPLE. It’s like they WANT us divided,dependent on whites,and tearing down each other.
“Dey din du nuf fin. dey gud bois” -all black community in unison, about the 150 inmates.
“Despite being only 13% of US population..”
Jay z should help black people, but he’s picking the wrong black people. He needs to put this money and effort into the youth. You know, the kids who are going to be in another ghetto trash cycle from these inmates who impregnated these women and then get sent to jail. The criminals are already lost causes. Sure, once in a while an innocent person gets locked up. It does happen. People also win the lottery, get struck by lightning, and meet a pornstar in a parking lot who tops you off. Crazy shit does happen, but let’s be more realistic. Inspire black kids to be college educated and not act like buffoons. Maybe help the kids to stay on the right track after their dumbass gangbanger father gets thrown in jail. That way, there can be a real change in the black community. Stop crying about the past and look to the future.
Ever heard of the s carter scholarship foundation??
I have. He needs to expand on that. Promote that the same way he’s promoting “social justice.” He’s playing right into the stereotype. He’ll knock it off when one of the idiots he gets out of jail commits a horrible crime. Hopefully the fake news media will report on it. Probably not because it won’t fit their agenda.
Watch that video, it is disgusting.
Anyone who can visualize themselves there should feel sick.
True horror there.
Do the crime pay the time. Simple as that.
Isn’t that kind of the point? It’s supposed to be a deterrent. Maybe these guys will see it as a wake up call and become productive members of society instead of low life criminal slime.