Jay Z files a Federal Lawsuit against Mississippi Officials on behalf of Inmates

The head of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the warden of the state penitentiary were on Tuesday 14th sued by Jay-Z. 

The Rapper took this action on behalf of the 29 inmates who said the two officials have done nothing to stop the violence that has left five inmates dead in the first two weeks of January 2020.

According to the report from NBC news, the lawsuit has three names of prisoners (Walter Gates, Roosevelt Holliman and Denorris Howell)  who were killed this year at the state penitentiary in Parchman.

"Gates was stabbed multiple times the night of New Year's Eve, and pronounced dead just after midnight. Roosevelt Holliman was stabbed to death in a fight the next day. And Denorris Howell, an inmate of Unit 291 at Parchman, was stabbed multiple times and pronounced dead the day after that."

The problem that led to the prison violence was investigated by an American daily newspaper,
Clarion-Ledger and it discovered that in 2014 "gangs rule" the prisons and while corrections officials insist there is “zero tolerance for violence. The recent deaths call this claim into question.

The lawsuit filed by Jay-Z's lawyer Alex Spiro at the U.S. District Court in Greenville, Miss, says that "these deaths are a direct result of Mississippi's utter disregard for the people it has incarcerated and their constitutional rights"



Source: NBC News