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Yo Gotti‘s sick and tired of the fatal bloodshed in Mississippi State Prisons, so he’s enlisted Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation to demand the Governor make immediate changes … or face a lawsuit.
On the heels of 5 inmates getting killed in 3 different MS prisons … Gotti’s called on Team Roc — the philanthropic arm of Roc Nation — and it fired off a letter Thursday to Gov. Phil Bryant. In the letter, they make it clear they’ll take legal action if Bryant doesn’t take steps to improve prison conditions.
Gotti’s pissed off because 2 of the deaths went down at the prison known as Parchman Farm … not far from his hometown of Memphis. Gotti says the prison conditions are “absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.”
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Prison violence in Mississippi has increased sharply in the last 10 days, with riots and escapes. Critics say gangs have almost literally taken over some of the penitentiaries … which are reportedly woefully understaffed and underfunded.
In its letter to the Governor, Team Roc says inmates — male and female — are “forced to live in squalor, with rats that crawl over them as they sleep on the floor, having been denied even a mattress for a cot.” They believe the conditions are so bad, they constitute cruel and unusual punishment … a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Sources close to Gotti tell TMZ … he and Roc Nation will give Gov. Bryant through the weekend to improve the situation. If nothing changes, we’re told attorney Alex Spiro will file a civil rights lawsuit.