After spending about two weeks in solitary confinement, R. Kelly has now reportedly been released to the general prison population, all thanks to his lawyer. The singer, who is serving a lengthy federal sentence, had been held in the Special Housing Unit at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina — conditions many people describe as solitary confinement. However, his attorney, Beau Brindley, stated that prison officials found no wrongdoing tied to the issue under review.
Prison ‘compelled’ to release R. Kelly from solitary confinement, says lawyer in report
Speaking of R. Kelly’s release from the solitary confinement and his subsequent return to the prison now, his lawyer told the Los Angeles Magazine, “Mr. Kelly has been released from special housing.” He added, “No impropriety whatsoever was found with respect to his possession of the telephone number of a former prison official.”
Attorney Brindley further told the LA Magazine, “He was kept in special housing for approximately two weeks without legitimate cause before the facility was compelled to release him.”
Per Brindley, the review was about Kelly’s possession of a phone number belonging to a retired prison official. In earlier reporting on the situation, the attorney linked the contact to Kelly’s involvement in a prison mentorship program and claimed that the contact was in touch after the official retired.
However, Dr. DeWayne Hendrix, who previously served as associate warden at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, explained that prisons often scrutinize when an inmate has contact information for current or former staff. “Under BOP standards of employee conduct, staff are prohibited from showing partiality toward or becoming personally involved with inmates or former inmates.”
Kelly, whose legal name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is serving a 30-year federal sentence after convictions in New York and Illinois on multiple charges. The LA Magazine reported that the federal prison records list his projected release date as December 2046.
Originally reported by Ishika Mishra on Reality Tea.
