While millions of fans around the world, including Beyonce and Jay Z are screaming free Meek, an investigative piece for Rolling Stone published by Paul Solotaroff includes comments from the Philly native Meek Mill who was harshly sentenced 2-4 years in state prison for a failed drug test.
“I won’t let [my family] come”, Meek says, “if they see me like this–fucked up beard, hair all yanked–then it’s like I’m really here. Which I’m not.”
Meek only lets family, a few close friends and his legal team visit him in prison
A Philadelphia attorney who chose to speak anonymously called Brinkley, the judge who sentenced Meek, a “sadist” and claims that he has a pattern of sending young black men to jail for trivial reasons.
According to Meek the probation officer that was appointed to him “hated” him and from the beginning was speaking to Meek like he was “some kind of rapist.”
Meek plans on directly addressing these injustices to prevent situations like these happening to more young innocent black men. “I want to speak on this system and what it does to black people,” he said. “On both fucking sides of the fence.”
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