Convicted sex trafficker and former R&B star Robert Sylvester “R.” Kelly has sued the Brooklyn prison housing him claiming they’ve unlawfully placed him on suicide watch as a form of punishment.
The complaint, filed by Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean, comes days after Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of federal sex trafficking and other charges. He was also given a $100,000 fine.
In an affidavit, Bonjean wrote that the former singer “impressed upon me repeatedly” that he was not suicidal and that conditions at the Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center were “extraordinarily stressful and harmful.”…