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14, has made fixing the prison system a major focus of his administration. Mississippi's new governor, Tate Reeves, who took office on Jan. "Mississippi is deliberately and systematically subjecting people in its care to a substantial risk of serious harm due to understaffing, in violation of the rights secured and protected by the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and it is no exaggeration to say lives will be lost absent of immediate intervention," reads the letter, which was also signed by U.S. MORE: Hip-hop artists Jay-Z, Yo Gotti file federal lawsuit over Mississippi prison deaths 6 that it was launching a civil rights investigation of the Mississippi prison system.ĭOJ officials said the probe by the Civil Rights Division's Special Litigation Section is focusing on "whether the Mississippi Department of Corrections adequately protects prisoners from physical harm at the hands of other prisoners at the four prisons, as well as whether there is adequate suicide prevention, including adequate mental health care and appropriate use of isolation at Parchman."īesides Parchman, the DOJ is investigating conditions at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl and the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility in Woodville. I knew there were issues but I never lost hope of the possibility that he'd be OK."Īlarmed by a string of murders, suicides and cellblock riots, the Department of Justice announced on Feb. "It was my worst nightmare because it was never. "That was pretty devastating," she said of receiving the phone call that her nephew was dead. 29, and the "countless injuries and untold cases of mental and physical terrorism inflicted on inmates." It goes on to mention the nearly two dozen "senseless deaths" in the prisons since Dec. The situation is critical," the ad reads. We’ve heard you talk about bold and immediate action now we need to see results before more lives are destroyed. "We need to be blunt: the alarming humanitarian crisis currently overwhelming Parchman Prison is spiraling out of control. Jay-Z's Roc Nation entertainment company and Yo Gotti also published a full-page ad in the New York Times directly addressed to Mississippi's new governor Tate Reeves, saying, "this is now part of your legacy."

"The conditions of confinement at Parchman are so barbaric, the deprivation of health and mental health care so extreme, and the defects in security so severe, that the people confined at Parchman live a miserable and hopeless existence confronted daily by imminent risk of substantial harm in violation of their rights under the U.S.