The disgraced RnB superstar, who's found guilty on nine counts including racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery and sex trafficking, will stay under the supervision following a psychological assessment.

AceShowbiz - R. Kelly is being kept on suicide watch for his own safety. Late Saturday, July 2, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn filed court papers saying the disgraced R'n'B superstar will stay under the supervision following a psychological assessment.

In the filing, assistant U.S. attorney Melanie Speight said Kelly's "current life circumstances undoubtedly bring emotional distress." She added, "He is a convicted sex offender who has been sentenced to spend the next three decades in prison. In the immediate future, he faces another federal criminal trial in Chicago for charges related to child pornography."

On Sunday, July 3, the New York Times said a staff psychologist at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn first placed Kelly on suicide watch after his sentencing last Wednesday, June 29, when a psychiatric review determined he was clinically at risk of harming himself.

The 55-year-old singer has been at the MDC since being sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and racketeering. It was revealed he was being kept under suicide watch a day after Kelly's lawyers announced they were suing the facility for "illegally" placing him under the supervision.

Inmates on suicide watch are usually required to wear paper smocks and can be stripped of utensils and forced to eat with their hands. Kelly's legal team say the "harsh" conditions of suicide watch have done irreparable harm to the "Bump N' Grind" singer, and on Friday, July 1 branded the MDC a "gulag"-style prison as they declared they were suing the institution.

They said the monitoring was violating Kelly's rights under the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. Jail policy included in a court filing said while under suicide watch, inmates can also be restrained and are under constant supervision from guards.

The New York Times added on Sunday that government lawyers said it would be "unprecedented" for the jail to take Kelly off suicide watch. The jail, in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, has housed 60-year-old Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and former partner of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was also recently placed on suicide watch at the jail.

Kelly, who is born Robert Sylvester Kelly, will face another trial in Chicago on August 22 on charges he produced child pornography and lured minors into sex acts.

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