R. Kelly won’t miss out on a Thanksgiving celebration despite being locked up inside a North Carolina prison, In Touch can exclusively report.
In Touch obtained the Thanksgiving Day menus for 808 inmates at the federal facility in the city of Butner. R. Kelly (real name: Robert Kelly) was transferred to North Carolina after previously spending time in a Chicago prison.
For the holiday, R. Kelly, 57, will be having a breakfast that consists of hot oatmeal with a breakfast cake or whole wheat bread with jelly. The inmates will be served skim milk with the meal.
The singer will get his Thanksgiving meal for lunch. R. Kelly will be served roasted turkey with chicken noodle soup.
The prison will also provide a soy chicken and vegetable option. The sides include mashed potatoes with gravy, yams, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and fruit. The inmates will be able to select from an assortment of holiday pies.
The holiday will end with a dinner of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with potato chips and fruit.
The disgraced singer was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a federal case out of Illinois over child pornography and other criminal charges.
“Robert Kelly used his power and fame for evil when he exploited children for his own gratification,” Sean Fitzgerald, special agent in charge of HSI Chicago, said following the sentence. “We are confident that Kelly’s sentence will empower victims who are facing similar circumstances to come forward knowing they will be supported. HSI, alongside its partners from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Chicago Police Department, and IRS Criminal Investigation, will do everything in our power to ensure perpetrators like Kelly face justice.”
The entertainer was sentenced to 30 years in a separate criminal case out of New York over sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
R. Kelly denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
As In Touch first reported, last year, R. Kelly sued the United States of America, multiple prison employees and a blogger over the leak of his private emails and call logs while behind bars.
“The Defendant United States of America breached its duty of care to [Kelly] when it allowed countless BOP officers to access [Kelly’s] confidential information without any legal basis to do so. The Defendant Unites States of America knew that [one of the employees] and [the other prison workers] routinely accessed [Kelly’s] private information from its systems and divulged private information to third parties for monetary gain, clout, or simple harassment,” R. Kelly’s lawsuit read.
“Because of the United States of America’s breach, at least 60 [prison] officers made unauthorized access to [Kelly’s] sensitive, confidential, and private information maintained by the BOP on its electronic system known as TruView,” R. Kelly’s lawyer claimed.
The government admitted there was an investigation that found a prison worker provided a blogger with R. Kelly’s information obtained from the internal prison system. However, a lawyer for the government argued, “The United States is not subject to institutional liability stemming from allegedly widespread negligent practices or policies.”
The case is ongoing.