A New York Federal judge has denied RKelly’s request to be released from prison due to the COVID19Pandemic
Kelly is awaiting trial in New York on charges of racketeering, transportation to engage in illegal sexual activity, coercion of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity among other charges. He is also awaiting trial in Illinois regarding separate sexual abuse allegations and is currently being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.
Donnelly says that the Bureau of Prisons has already enacted emergency measures to protect inmates such as making soap available, suspending all legal and social visits, suspending inmate facility transfers and providing screening and testing. In addition, the judge says that Kelly has not demonstrated that he is within the CDC’s most at-risk group.
Donnelly also said Kelly is not suitable for release because he has not demonstrated that is not a fight risk of a danger to the community. Kelly is in custody because “of the risks that he will flee or attempt to obstruct, threaten or intimidate prospective witnesses,” Donnelly said. "No matter what steps they take the sanitation will be substandard, the risk of an internal pandemic at the MCC is great, and if one does get sick jail healthcare is notoriously substandard," it also states, mentioning that his legal team has been blocked from entering the facility due to the risk of exposure.
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