NEW YORK — R. Kelly was taken off of suicide watch Tuesday after the convicted R&B singer complained that officials at Brooklyn’s federal jail placed him in isolation for no reason.
The 55-year-old was put under around-the-clock surveillance at the Metropolitan Detention Center after his sentencing last Wednesday to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking.
“(Following) a clinical assessment, plaintiff Robert Sylvester Kelly, also known as ‘R. Kelly,’ was removed from suicide watch as of this morning,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie Speight wrote in a filing in Brooklyn Federal Court.
