Kelly’s lawyers filed an emergency motion for his release, alleging that Kelly was being targeted for murder by prison officials. In their filing, Kelly’s team included a sworn declaration from Mikeal Glenn Stine that prison officials asked him to murder Kelly,

R. Kelly was hospitalized for an overdose after prison staff gave him "an amount of medicine that could have killed him" and was later forcibly removed from a hospital against medical advice, his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing Monday.

R. Kelly's attorneys say the R&B singer collapsed in prison and was hospitalized. The details made in court records this week came after Kelly's extraordinary allegations of a murder plot by prison officials that he argues require his temporary release on home detention.