Meek Mill posted bail for 20 incarcerated girls in Philadelphia final week, serving to them to reunite with their households for Christmas.
The rapper co-founded the organisation REFORM Alliance in 2018 alongside Jay-Z and others, aiming to remodel the system of probation and parole within the US.
Mill posted bail for 20 girls who have been unable to afford the prices, permitting them the possibility to spend the festive season with their family members. 5 girls have been launched from the Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia on Christmas Eve, with 15 extra to be launched this week.
In addition to bail, every girl will even be given a present card to buy groceries or presents for the vacations.
“It was devastating for me to be away from my son in the course of the holidays once I was incarcerated,” Mill stated in a press launch. “So I perceive what these girls and their households are going via.
“Nobody ought to must spend the vacations in jail just because they will’t afford bail. I’m grateful for the chance to assist these girls be with their households and family members throughout this particular time of yr.”
REFORM Alliance was based after Mill’s personal battle with the justice system, which noticed him sentenced to jail for two-to-four years for popping a wheelie whereas on probation. The sentence sparked the #FreeMeek motion and finally led to his launch on bail. In 2019, his conviction was overturned.
Final yr, the organisation helped move reform legal guidelines in Michigan that considerably reshaped the state’s probation and parole system. Legal guidelines SB 1048, SB 1050 and SB 1051 lowered grownup felony probation sentences in Michigan from 5 years to 3 years, stopping limitless extensions on misdemeanour and felony probation phrases, limiting jail sanctions for technical probation violations and requiring parole supervision phrases to be tailor-made to an individual’s particular person dangers and desires.
In the meantime, in January, Mill and Jay-Z have been among the many stars supporting a proposed legislation in New York State that may restrict prosecutors’ potential to make use of defendants’ rap lyrics as proof of alleged crimes.
