“The game plan is to get change,” Gotti recently told CNN‘s Stephanie Elam. “To make sure the Mississippi prison be held accountable to treat the prisoners like humans and not have them living in inhumane conditions.”
Moreover, inmates cite missing light fixtures, collapsing ceilings, black mold, broken sewer systems and water systems contaminated with human feces, and freezing cells in the winter that turn into stifling hot boxes in the summer.
Team Roc asserts that, based upon anonymous inmate testimonies, “the inmates receive meals that are undercooked and served at unsafe temperatures. Many times, the food is adulterated with rat feces, cockroaches, rocks, bird droppings and other foreign matter.”
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves called the conditions “infuriating” when he recently took a tour of the notorious Parchman prison, most especially Unit 29, where more than half of the inmates who have filed the lawsuit are living.
“We can do better,” Reeves said, vowing to shut down that unit, according to CNN.
