Roc Nation is an entertainment conglomerate with branches specifically dedicated to music, movies, television, sports, and philanthropy. Team Roc, the philanthropic branch of Roc Nation, has been doing a lot to fight against injustices. The recent headlines surrounding the deaths of nine inmates in the notorious Mississippi penitentiary has caused Team Roc and Yo Gotti to fight for justice and better conditions.

According to TMZ, Team Roc has shared leaked footage from the gruesome conditions in the prison. Videos and photos were taken from contraband phones from inmates. One of the photos includes what appears to be a knife fight between two inmates as well as individuals suffering injuries inside of filthy cells.

Yo Gotti was among one of the first to bring these issues to light. With Team Roc, they've filed these images and photos in their filing for an emergency protective order on behalf of dozens of inmates. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced that he would shut down Parchman Farms, one of the sections of the prison.

“Governor Reeves’ plan to close down a Parchman prison unit that has caused devastating deaths is a necessary first step," Yo Gotti said. "Beyond that, he must implement broader safety measures to address similar issues in other units and urgently provide inmates with medical attention. In the interim, we’re calling for the Department of Justice to step in, move the Parchman inmates to federal prisons and ensure their immediate well-being.”

Governor Reeves, however, was just complaining about the contraband phones inside of the prisons, going as far as blaming the phones for the violence. However, it seems like he may have not been willing to shut down Parchman Farms if the pressure wasn't applied by Team Roc. 

Jay-Z has filed a lawsuit against the head of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the warden of the state penitentiary for failing to take any action to put a stop to the excessive violence endured by inmates, five of each have died in the past two weeks. The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday by Jay-Z’s lawyer Alex Spiro on behalf of 29 inmates, states that “these deaths are a direct result of Mississippi’s utter disregard for the people it has incarcerated and their constitutional rights.” In a statement to NBC News, Spiro expressed that “we cannot treat people this way and it’s time to do something about it.” DOC Commissioner Pelicia Hall and Mississippi State Penitentiary Superintendent Marshall Turner have been named as defendants in the case.

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This lawsuit comes in the wake of a letter sent by Spiro on behalf of Jay-Z and his Roc Nation signee, Yo Gotti, to Mississippi’s Governor Phil Bryant. The letter outlined the “inhumane conditions in prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections,” including inmates being “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.” “This unthinkable spate of deaths is the culmination of years of severe understaffing and neglect at Mississippi’s prisons,” the letter reads. “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.” Spiro essentially threatened that they would take legal action if the proper precautions to ensure safety were not taken, as they were “prepared to pursue all potential avenues to obtain relief for the people living in Mississippi’s prisons and their families.”