The lawsuit, filed by Jay-Z's lawyer Alex Spiro in the US District Court in Greenville, Mississippi, says the deaths are a direct result of Mississippi's utter disregard for the people it has incarcerated and their constitutional rights.
piro, on behalf of Jay-Z and hip-hop artist Yo Gotti, wrote a letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and DOC Commissoner Pelicia Hall dated Jan. 9 saying that they were “prepared to pursue all potential avenues to obtain relief for the people living in Mississippi’s prisons and their families,” according toThe letter added that the deaths were as a result of years of severe understaffing and neglect at Mississippi’s prisons, NBC said.
“As Mississippi has incarcerated increasing numbers of people, it has dramatically reduced its funding of prisons. As a result, prison conditions fail to meet even the most basic human rights,” NBC reported, citing the contents of the letter. The lawsuit, filed against the head of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the warden of the state penitentiary in Parchman, seeks damages for the prisoners and an order forcing the department to address the issues, mainly by increasing staff and cleaning up sewage.
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