Rapper Meek Mill has been sentenced to prison for a minimum of two years for violating probation Time
Jay-Z is continuing to speak out in support of fellow rapper Meek Mill, who was sentenced to two to four years in prison on probation violations by a Philadelphia judge earlier this month.
In a new op-ed for the New York Times, Jay-Z slams the judge’s decision as unfair. “What’s happening to Meek Mill is just one example of how our criminal justice system entraps and harasses hundreds of thousands of black people every day,” he writes, pointing out that Mill “has been on probation for basically his entire adult life.”
Common Pleas Judge Genece Brinkley cited a failed drug test, failure to comply with a court order restricting his travel and two other unrelated arrests for Mill’s sentencing, saying the rapper wasted several chances to clean up his act following a 2009 gun and drug case, even after a prosecutor recommended that Mill not be imprisoned for the violations.
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