Thursday, March 28, 2024

R. Kelly Transferred Out of Restrictive Solitary Unit to General Population in Chicago Lockup

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*R. Kelly has been moved out of solitary confinement and into the general population at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, his attorney Steven Greenberg said on Tuesday. The singer has been held since early July, when he was arrested for various sex crimes, including child porn charges.

Kelly is facing a total of 18 counts of sexual misconduct and other charges in Chicago and New York, and on Aug. 5 he was charged with two counts of prostitution with a person under 18, per Variety via MSN

The embattled singer was transferred out of a solitary housing unit following an emergency motion from his attorneys who argued that Kellz was being unfairly treated behind bars due to his celebrity status and nature of his alleged crimes.

Chicago prosecutors fired off a letter following the transfer, claiming the R&B icon wanted to be in solitary in the first place.

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“Defendant stated that the MCC staff told him that he could ‘try it [general population] in a couple of days to see what it looked like but they can’t guarantee nothing,’” prosecutors wrote, quoting from a recorded phone call Kelly placed on July 19 from Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, per Page Six

“You know, and that’s why, I was like, hmmm, too many people up on you and I done seen too many movies, you know,” R Kelly allegedly said on the call.

Kelly’s defense attorneys made the emergency motion last Thursday for his transfer, saying their client was getting no sunlight, had limited access to email and showers and very little “meaningful interaction with other humans.”

“Next step is to get him bail because he should not be locked up at all!,” Greenberg tweeted on Sunday. 

Greenberg has also noted that Kelly “has been a model inmate and should be treated with an appropriate level of respect and privilege, not as if he has misbehaved.”

R. Kelly is facing four sex crimes charges involving minors in three different states, including federal indictments in Illinois and Brooklyn.

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