Overview
- According to court filings, three Bureau of Prisons officials conspired with a terminally ill Aryan Brotherhood inmate to assassinate the singer.
- Kelly’s attorneys filed an emergency motion on June 10 seeking a transfer to house arrest, citing credible threats to his life in federal custody.
- Prison authorities placed Kelly in solitary confinement at the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner, North Carolina, after the motion was filed.
- He is serving a combined 31-year sentence for federal convictions in New York and Chicago on charges of sexual abuse of minors and child pornography.
- Maintaining his innocence and pursuing appeals, his legal team is now asking President Trump for a pardon or commutation.