He pointed out, “As of 2015, one-third of the 4.65 million Americans who were on some form of parole or probation were black

Meek Mill was released from jail Tuesday after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered his immediate release. The state’s highest court directed Judge Genece Brinkley, who had previously jailed him, to let the rapper out on “unsecured bail.”

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Judge Genece Brinkley, who sentenced the rapper for the probation violation, said he wasted several chances to clean up his act after the 2009 case. The sentence came against the recommendation of the prosecutor who said Meek Mill had matured since his original crime. Brinkley said the prosecutor did not know the case as well as she did and that the rapper just “does what he wants.” Demonstrators took to the streets at the time in protest.

Meek Mill was arrested twice in 2017 — once in St. Louis for an alleged altercation in the airport and another time for alleged reckless driving in New York City involving a dirt bike.

Earlier Tuesday, fellow Philadelphian and comedian Kevin Hart was at the jail to visit him, CBS Philadelphia reports.

“The frustration for me is, why is he still there? I still don’t understand why he’s still in jail after so much has been pointed out,” Hart told reporters after the visit.

“I think the good with the situation is that he now has a platform. And I think coming out, he will be able to use that platform to really shine a light on how corrupt this system is and hopefully also keep this younger generation from going through this. And also, a lot of people that are incarcerated now that are doing unnecessary time.”

Hart said his relationship with Meek Mill is strong and that he views the rapper as innocent.

“When you know that you’re innocent, it’s tough to sit through something that you know that you didn’t do,” Hart said.

Jay-Z wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in November and called the rapper’s sentence “just one example of how our criminal justice system entraps and harasses hundreds of thousands of black people every day.”

Jay-Z wrote that Meek Mill has been “stalked by a system that considers the slightest infraction a justification for locking him back inside” and said that when he was growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s and 1980s, he saw that probation became a “landmine” for many. He pointed out that a “random misstep” could bring consequences greater than the crime.

“A person on probation can end up in jail over a technical violation like missing a curfew,” wrote Jay-Z. He pointed out, “As of 2015, one-third of the 4.65 million Americans who were on some form of parole or probation were black. Black people are sent to prison for probation and parole violations at much higher rates than white people.”

On Nov. 7, Jay-Z stopped his concert in Dallas to say of Meek Mill, “He caught a charge when he was, like, 19. He’s 30 now, he’s been on probation for 11 years. F***ing 11 years. Judge gave him two to four years because he got arrested for being on a bike and popping a f***ing wheelie.”

Gisela Perez and Cassandra Gauthier contributed to this report.