By Blessing Udeobasi
Following a lawsuit against prison authorities by R&B singer, R Kelly, he has been removed from suicide watch.
The singer who was convicted for sex crimes had filed the lawsuit claiming he was being subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” which violates his 8th Amendment rights after he was put on suicide watch at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
He insisted that he wasn’t even thinking of killing himself and told prison officials that. Kelly also claimed he was placed in these harsh conditions because he’s a celebrity.
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Although Federal authorities initially filed a motion opposing the suit, saying they would clinically assess Kelly for the duration of his suicide watch, he was on Tuesday removed from the suicide watch following a clinical assessment.
This was revealed by Metropolitan Detention Center Warden, Heriberto H. Tellez who was named as one of the defendants in the lawsuit when speaking to TMZ on Tuesday.
Recall that Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison last Wednesday following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and s3x trafficking charges. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Kelly to more than 25 years behind bars, while his defense attorneys asked for up to 10 years.
