Rappers Jay-Z and Meek Mill announced they were forming a criminal justice reform organization last year.Now, to protect staff and inmates from the coronavirus pandemic, the organization sent nearly 100,000 surgical masks to prisons and jails across the United States on Friday.Contagious diseases can wreak havoc quickly oncorrectional facilities because prisoners live in such crowded quarters, and are unable to practice social distancing.
AdvocaJay-Z and Meek Mill's criminal justice reform organization is providing 100,000 surgical masks to prisons and jails to protect the people working and living in the correctional facilities; seen 2019'It's a very vulnerable population,' REFORM Alliance's chief advocacy officer Jessica Jackson explained.