Kelly’s lawyers filed an emergency motion for his release, alleging that Kelly was being targeted for murder by prison officials. In their filing, Kelly’s team included a sworn declaration from Mikeal Glenn Stine that prison officials asked him to murder Kelly,

R. Kelly was hospitalized for an overdose after prison staff gave him "an amount of medicine that could have killed him" and was later forcibly removed from a hospital against medical advice, his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing Monday.

R. Kelly was recently taken to the hospital after allegedly being given too much medication by prison staff while in solitary confinement, according to a filing from the disgraced R&B singer’s legal team.