Yo Gotti, Team Roc File Lawsuit on Behalf of Mississippi Prisoners
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Yo Gotti is a man of the sentence, following through with a lawsuit on behalf of almost 30 Mississippi state offenders surviving nightmarish, sometimes fatal ailments.
TMZ broke the story, Gotti enlisted Team Roc — the philanthropic arm of Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation — along with its own high-profile lawyer, Alex Spiro, to rep the offenders following a spike in mortal violence in several MS country prisons.
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The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, states the max-security prison, Parchman, is a powder keg following 3 deaths in the first week of 2020. Each of 3 inmates were stabbed to death.
In accordance with the docs, acquired by TMZ, the MS prison system is”chronically understaffed” and dramatically underfunded… as in decreased by tens of thousands every year. Those amounts — combined with supposedly deplorable states — have attracted the prison into a boil stage.
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To make things worse, Parchman does not have sufficient mattresses for its offenders, cells have been covered in black mould and raw sewer is thrown out on the flooring… according to this lawsuit.
The prison supposedly has a severe water problem also, like Flint. In the lawsuit, Team Roc asserts the drinking water for offenders repeatedly fails to meet national security standards.
In accordance with the lawsuit, offenders are vulnerable to serious injury and left unattended since there aren’t enough prison guards.
As we reported, Gotti, who is from neighboring Memphis, was outraged by what is occurring within the walls of Parchman — and also requested Team Roc to struggle for the offenders’ civil rights. They wanted MS Gov. Phil Bryant make adjustments or face a suit, so… here it is.
The lawsuit seeks damages for its offenders, and an arrangement forcing Mississippi’s Dept. of Corrections to put out a strategy to tackle each of the problems… especially raising staff and cleaning up the sewer.
Gotti tells TMZ,”The Lives of countless people in Mississippi prisons are at stake and we won’t quit until that can be fixed.”
