R. Kelly was put on suicide watch to keep him safe, despite the disgraced R&B star’s insistence in a lawsuit the move was done “as a form of punishment,” federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Sunday.
In court filings, the prosecutors said Kelly was placed on a temporary suicide watch following his 30-year sentence for sex trafficking at the recommendation of a staff psychologist at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
“Based on the clinical assessment and in accordance with Bureau of Prisons ... policy for preventing suicides, Plaintiff remains on suicide watch for his own safety,” prosecutors wrote.
