In a press conference held on Monday (Nov. 27), Rev. Al Sharpton said a broken criminal justice system is responsible for Meek Mill’s imprisonment and called for the judge who sentenced the rapper to reconsider or step aside.
Sharpton’s words came after meeting with 30-year-old Meek Mill in a Pennsylvania prison and told reporters outside the facility that Meek has become a symbol for the thousands of people who have been “victimized by abusive probationary and parole systems.”
“He’s representative of many people in institutions like this that do little or nothing, they’re violated and their lives, their businesses are ruined,” Sharpton said.
Meek was sentenced this month to two to four years in prison for violating probation on a roughly decade-old gun and drug case. The ruling came after both Meek’s probation officer and a prosecutor recommended that the Philadelphia-native not be jailed.
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