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.