Overview

• Court filings state that on June 12 prison staff instructed Kelly to take an “overdose quantity” of his anxiety medication while in solitary confinement at FCI Butner, North Carolina.
• He was rushed to Duke University Hospital on June 13, where doctors found blood clots in his legs and lungs but say he was removed before receiving recommended surgery.
• Legal documents include a sworn declaration from inmate Mikeal Glenn Stine claiming three high-ranking Bureau of Prisons officials offered him early release in exchange for killing Kelly.
• Federal prosecutors dismissed Kelly’s motion as “deeply unserious” and “repugnant,” arguing that the Chicago court lacks jurisdiction over his confinement conditions.
• Kelly’s attorneys have filed an emergency motion in Chicago seeking his transfer to home confinement and are petitioning President Donald Trump for a pardon.