R. Kelly Asks for Jail Release, Citing Coronavirus Fears

R. Kelly has made a pitch to be released from the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center on bond as he awaits his trial in Illinois federal court, citing a fear of contracting the rapidly spreading coronavirus.
In a motion obtained by Billboard, filed by his attorney Steven Greenberg on Thursday (March 26), it states that the encouraged social distancing from the CDC are “simply impossible” in the correctional facility’s close quarters.“No matter what steps they ta