R. Kelly has asked a judge to free him from federal jail in Chicago on Thursday as he awaits trial on child pornography and other charges.
A court filing by his lawyers claims the spread of the new coronavirus behind bars puts Kelly’s life at risk. Sanitizer and soap are hard to come by in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), with most of its 700 inmates held in small, two-person cells that make the kind of social distancing called for to thwart the transmission of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, impossible, the filing in U.S.
District Court in Chicago says. The I Believe I Can Fly singer faces several dozen counts of state and federal sexual misconduct charges in Illinois, Minnesota and New York, from sexual assault to