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R. Kelly Placed on Suicide Watch After Being Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

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R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he's being held after the 55-year-old disgraced singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges earlier this week.«Mr.

Kelly was placed on suicide watch for purely punitive reasons in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights,» his lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, said in a statement to ET. «MDC has a policy of placing high profile individuals under the harsh conditions of suicide watch whether they are suicidal or not (this was done recently with Ghislaine Maxwell).

MDC Brooklyn is being run like a gulag. My partner and I spoke with Mr. Kelly following his sentencing, he expressed that he was mentally fine and ONLY expressed concern that even though he was NOT suicidal, MDC would place him on suicide watch (as they did following the guilty verdict).

We are in the process of engaging in the court in this matter as his placement on suicide watch is illegal.»ET has reached out to prosecutors and prison officials for comment.On June 29, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in jail, five years of supervised release and a $100,000 fine, nine months after he was found guilty on one count of racketeering and eight violations of the Mann Act by a federal jury.

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