Jay Z is currently touring the country in support of his stellar 4:44 album and along the way he has made sure to speak on what many believe is to be an injustice in the recent prison sentence for the fellow rapper and Roc Nation managed artist Meek Mill.

Hov has not been one to be silent about the flawed criminal justice system and once again uses his platform to speak on what is wrong. However, this time Jigga did not do some from the stage, he took to the New York Times were he penned an op-ed regarding the sentence, the opposition placed upon Meek immediately as arrested and how the rules that are placed upon one on probation must be examined for fairness.

Below you can read an opening excerpt from Jay Z from the article:

On the surface, this may look like the story of yet another criminal rapper who didn’t smarten up and is back where he started. But consider this: Meek was around 19 when he was convicted on charges relating to drug and gun possession, and he served an eight-month sentence. Now he’s 30, so he has been on probation for basically his entire adult life. For about a decade, he’s been stalked by a system that considers the slightest infraction a justification for locking him back inside.

What’s happening to Meek Mill is just one example of how our criminal justice system entraps and harasses hundreds of thousands of black people every day. I saw this up close when I was growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s and 1980s. Instead of a second chance, probation ends up being a land mine, with a random misstep bringing consequences greater than the crime. A person on probation can end up in jail over a technical violation like missing a curfew.

The full op-ed is available here.