R. Kelly’s lawyer has submitted a court filing to have the disgraced singer released from jail due to coronavirus concerns. The disgraced singer, who is awaiting trial for a number of charges including child pornography, is currently housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.
His lawyer claims that the limited precautions at the facility are putting the singer’s life at risk. The court filing states that sanitizer and soap are hard to come by and most of the 700 inmates are housed in small two-man cells that make social distancing impossible.
Visitors have been barred from the facility but there are few screening protocols in place for new detainees, lawyers, and guards.
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