Overview
- The singer was moved to the Special Housing Unit at FCI Butner pending a Bureau of Prisons inquiry, his attorney said.
- A search of his cell followed a cellmate’s contraband phone discovery and turned up a notebook listing the former director’s private number.
- Attorney Beau Brindley says the number was provided before the official’s retirement to support an inmate mentorship program.
- The Bureau of Prisons declined to discuss the case, citing privacy and security, and says staff are barred from giving preferential treatment.
- Kelly is serving a decades-long federal sentence in North Carolina, and the length of his SHU placement has not been determined.