R. Kelly, sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexual offences, has been moved – since Wednesday last week – from the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina. This was confirmed by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons.
In September 2022, R. Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of six-count charges of sexual abuse against women, and the women who testified on video did so under the pseudonyms Jane, Pauline and Nia. However, R. Kelly was acquitted by the jury of enticement charges involving two other accusers, Tracy and Brittany.
In February 2023, R. Kelly was again sentenced to one additional year behind bars for his Chicago conviction of federal child pornography and child enticement charges.