Disgraced singer R. Kelly has been moved from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, where he will serve a prison sentence of over 30 years. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the move, which took place last week.
Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was sentenced in February to an additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction on federal child pornography and child enticement charges. This is in addition to the 30 years he is already serving for a separate conviction out of New York.
In September 2022, a federal jury in Chicago convicted Kelly of sexually abusing three women on video, while acquitting him of enticement charges involving two other accusers. The same jury acquitted him of seven other charges, including obstruction of justice. However, Kelly still faces a solicitation of prostitution charge in Minnesota, although that case has stalled as his federal cases took precedence.
Kelly, who is now 56 years old, could be eligible for release from prison when he is a little over 79 years old. His high-profile case has been ongoing for several years and has garnered widespread attention from the media and the public.
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