Earlier this week, news broke that Jay-Z and Yo Gotti withdrew a lawsuit they had filed in 2020 against the Mississippi Department of Corrections over unsafe and inhumane conditions in the state’s prison system. As NBC News reports, The rappers had filed their lawsuit to address horrific conditions at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, where a number of inmates had died and many more were living in intolerable circumstances.
