• R. Kelly filed a lawsuit against the Brooklyn jail.
• Kelly’s attorney Jennifer Bonjean cited a prosecutor.
• Kelly claimed that harsh conditions he endured caused him “serious mental suffering”

R. Kelly filed a lawsuit against the Brooklyn jail where he has been detained since being found guilty of racketeering and s** crimes, alleging that the facility put him on suicide watch when it should have known he wasn’t suicidal.

The 55-year-old multi-platinum R&B singer said in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn that the Metropolitan Detention Center ordered the monitor following his June 29 sentencing “solely for punitive reasons” and because he was a “high-profile” prisoner.

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R. Kelly’s attorney Jennifer Bonjean cited a prosecutor as saying that the jail’s legal counsel had informed her that Kelly was “on a psych alert for many reasons, such as age, crime, publicity, and sentencing,” according to the psychology department. No schedule was given.

The justification didn’t please Bonjean. Simply put, she wrote, “MDC Brooklyn is run like a gulag.”

R. Kelly claimed that the “harsh conditions” he endured caused him “serious mental suffering” and constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Although the docket shows Kelly is requesting $100 million, he is asking for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

Requests for comment from the prison did not immediately receive a response.

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