Photo Credit: YNW Melly/Instagram
Rapper YNW Melly is currently facing possible life behind bars for the murder of his friends Christopher “YNW Juvy” Thomas Jr. and Anthony “YNW Sakchaser” Williams and is currently sounding off about what treatment he’s been receiving. In a new Instagram post, he shared how he’s been unable to reach family, friends, his legal team or anyone by phone for close to a year. He even name dropped the correctional staff that caused the problems he was experiencing.
“In the picture taken over a year ago I am smiling, but as I speak to you from My cell at this very moment I am weeping in the present,” YNW Melly wrote in the caption. “I have been mute For years about the mistreatment, discrimination and misuse of authority mentally& emotionally abuse, I have been suffering and in fear B.S.O staff Captain Archibald Captain Hubert. XO Jean Baptiste and XO Jenkins are just A few names of high ranked staff that have enforced this treatment.”
“On April 8th I was told I was not allowed to use the phone indefinitely (which mean forever) captain Archibald Revoked my calls for using another inmate pin to talk on the phone,” he wrote. “Usually when Someone get disciplined for this It is usually phone restricted for 30 days it is now going for 8 months, no other inmate in this jail is being treated this way. I haven’t spoke to family, friends, managers and accountants for months at a time making it impossible To pay my bills and take care of my house hold lively hood, or even talk to anyone for relaxation for pleasure and stress relief and worse to handle lawyer fees.”
He explained about how tough this is to experience during the holidays saying, “B.S.O is aware of this, I am being hidden from the world not hearing my family voices has mentally & emotionally tortured me into deep depression. This is entrapment I was never given a fair warning that talking on another inmate pin was wrong, the holidays are approaching not to mention my mother birthday is on Christmas Day not only is this torture to me its torturing them.”
He then took the opportunity to reach out to media and celebrity friends to help him deal with the injustice, even tagging President Joe Biden claiming his innocence. “I am innocent until proven guilty and I have all rights to talk to my family, who ever took my privillages have a personal vendetta towards me, this is true mistreatment and discrimination plus pain and suffering and I cannot do my time like this Awaiting trial being secluded because of my celebrity status and my social media following Sheriff @bsosherifftony Please get on top of this situation Somebody please help me!! @saycheesetv @akademiks @nojumper @meekmill @kimkardashian @300ent @joebiden.”
As it stands, although over the summer it was ruled that the possibility of a death sentence wasn’t possible, but a November 9th Appeals Court decision said prosecutors could now seek the death penalty. Judge Andrew Siegel had originally sad prosecutors “had failed to give Melly and his attorneys proper notice that they planned to do so,” but the appeals court said the prosecution did not violate state law. “We find that the state complied with its statutory obligations when it filed its notice of intent to seek the death penalty within 45 days of arraignment,” Judge Spencer D. Levine wrote when reinstating the death penalty option. “The fact that the state filed a superseding indictment, requiring a second arraignment, does not vitiate the already filed and timely notice of intent. Notice is notice.” As it stands, Melly’s death penalty provision is expected to be heard by Florida’s Supreme Court later this year.
