let me ask you, jerry, what is going on in parchman? >> well, it is falling apart to be honest.ou've got several things going on. you have horrible conditions in what is called unit 29. you have rain literally pouring into the cells, you have just horrible conditions overall. and here is the basic problem, you don't have enough correctional officers. they're only paying as a starting salary $25,000 a year which qualifies that officer and his or her family for food stamps. so -- >> so the corrections officers in mississippi are getting $25,000 a year where the correction officers were literally qualify for food stamps for the family. >> yes. >> so that is why you don't have a lot of people applying to be a correction officer in mississippi. >> absolutely. and the legislature has refused to raise that -- repeatedly, despite request. >> now these the-- these people that are are incarcerated and held by the state but put under the inhuman conditions and the state is not responding to this at all? >> well, after all of this violence took place, they moved a number of these inmates of

the alarming humanitarian crisis currently overwhelming parchman prison is spiraling out of control.ernment to declare a state of emergency. they wrote about the parchment inmates serving sentences for nonviolent crimes living under the constant threat of violence, deaths, and suicides. yesterday the two artists filed a second lawsuit on behalf of the 152 inmates who live in that prison if you could call it living. we reached out to the governor's office for comment and did not immediately hear back. i think this is extraordinary, a, that rock nation, jay-z in particular, have taken out a full page, started highlighting stuff. there was so much to highlight i finally put it down. they took out a full page ad basically targeting the governor saying, you know, your legacy is now going to be stained and tainted if you don't do something about this. >> this is a very big deal. the point of prison is rehabilitation. you pay back a debt to society. you shouldn't face a new trial of violence and unless you have the death penalty you should not be facing death in prison. >> they said the con