R. Kelly removed from suicide watch at Brooklyn prison
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R&B singer R. Kelly was taken off suicide watch Monday after being placed on watch Friday following his New York trial in which he was sentenced to 30 years behind bars.
Haley Chi-Sing is a Fox News Digital production assistant. You can reach her at @haleychising on Twitter.
Kelly was placed on suicide watch Friday after being convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in his most recent trial in New York. His attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, told Fox News Digital at the time he "was placed on suicide watch for purely punitive reasons in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights."
Bonjean said MDC was being run like "a gulag," writing that Kelly had expressed he was mentally fine. She wrote they were in the process of filing an emergency rule on July 1 "to show cause with the courts," saying the confinement to suicide watch was "illegal."