Melly complains about jail conditions
YNW Melly files a lawsuit against Broward County Jail for what he terms as cruel and unusual conditions in jail, according to WPLG Local 10.
In the suit, Melly alleges being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, denied proper medical care, and deprived of adequate outdoor time. He is seeking immediate release, arguing that the conditions are violating his constitutional rights and harming his health. Since 2019, Melly has been awaiting trial for the alleged murder of two men.
“Demons is a black male whose current detention conditions shock the conscience and could not even be imagined in this day and age even in a third-world country that has no guard rails protecting human decency and dignity,” the suit reads.
“For over three years, Petitioner Jamell Demons has not been permitted to make a single phone call or have a single visit with his family or any member of the outside world, including not seeing or speaking with his own mother in over three years!!!
“Demons has and continues to be subjected to the type of debilitating isolation that renders his conditions of incarceration cruel, unusual and beyond belief in a civilized society governed by Constitutional safeguards.”