R. Kelly hospitalised after lethal overdose in prison
The singer was allegedly given an excessive dose of medication while in solitary confinement
R. Kelly’s prison situation is becoming news headline-worthy as the singer continues to seek his release.
The Chicago native is serving a 30-year prison sentence after he was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2021.
Kelly's legal team filed a petition earlier this month to seek his immediate release due to apparent threats from the officials.
The motion requested a swift transfer of the 58-year-old from federal custody to home detention.
However, things apparently took a darker turn later on as the attorneys now allege that their client received a lethal dose of medication in prison.
According to the emergency motion filed on Monday, the artist was put into solitary confinement two days after he requested to be released.
While in isolation, an unusual amount of medication was administered to Kelly by prison staff, which caused him to collapse in his cell and he was taken to Duke University Hospital.
The documents claim that the hospital staff determined that the patient was given an excessive amount of medicine.
“That means that, within two days of the filing of his motion, Bureau of Prisons officials administered an amount of medication that significantly exceeded a safe dose and caused Mr. Kelly to overdose, putting his life in jeopardy. They gave him an amount of medicine that could have killed him,” Attorney Beau B. Brindley stated in the filing.
It is also worth noting that Kelly was moved to solitary confinement after his legal team provided an affidavit from an inmate who claimed the government wants the R&B singer dead because he plans to reveal compromising information.
Why is R. Kelly in prison?
R. Kelly was accused of sexually abusing minors in the ’90s but was prosecuted in 2002 after his explicit videos were leaked.
The I Believe I Can Fly singer was controversially found not guilty in 2008. However, law enforcement authorities reopened the investigation after the victims revealed their disturbing stories in the 2019 documentary Surviving R. Kelly.
