R. Kelly Placed in Solitary Confinement

Four years ago Grammy Award winning singer / songwriter R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison on trafficking charges [click here if you missed that].

Now there are reports that Kellz has been placed in 'the hole...'

From AllHipHop

R. Kelly is sitting in “the hole” at a North Carolina federal prison while his lawyers push claims of an assassination plot, a suspicious overdose and government misconduct in his bid for a new trial.

Kelly is serving a 30-year federal sentence from his New York racketeering and six trafficking conviction, along with a separate 20-year Chicago sentence for child p0rn0graphy and enticement, most of which runs at the same time.

He is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, where prison officials recently transferred him to the Special Housing Unit over what court filings describe as an undisclosed infraction.

In federal prison slang, the Special Housing Unit is known as “the hole,” a segregated wing where inmates spend up to 23 hours a day locked in a cell under tight restrictions.

Placement in the SHU sharply limits phone access, in-person visits and access to legal materials, and it is typically used for disciplinary reasons or pending investigations into alleged rule violations.

AllHipHop has learned that R. Kelly’s attorney, Beau Brindley, traveled to Butner to review evidence connected to Kelly’s motion for a new trial and to prepare a required reply brief.

Brindley told the court that roughly 30 minutes before he arrived for a scheduled legal visit, prison officials placed Kelly in the Special Housing Unit without explaining the alleged infraction.

When Brindley finally met with his client, he wrote that Kelly lacked access to his legal documents, making it impossible to review the evidence or prepare the filing.