An attorney for singer R. Kelly, seen in a Chicago courtroom in 2019, filed an emergency motion this week alleging a prison murder plot against the disgraced R&B singer and requesting home detention.

Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET on June 26, 2025. For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world.

Dr. Aliasghar Mohyuddin, who believes his signature has been used without his consent on medical records in the California prison system, stands for a portrait at his home on Wednesday, May 28, 2025.