R. Kelly now claims he suffered an overdose requiring immediate medical attention after taking pills given to him by staff while in solitary confinement

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NEED TO KNOW

• R. Kelly claims, in a third supplement to an emergency motion seeking his release, that prison officials gave him a near-lethal dose of medication while he was in solitary confinement

• The singer and his lawyer, Beau Brindley, are hoping Kelly will be granted a temporary furlough and allowed to serve house arrest due to threats to his life while in prison

• Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Julien said in a court filing that he believes placing Kelly in solitary confinement shows that prison officials are trying to protect the singer.

R. Kelly spent two days at a North Carolina medical facility over the weekend after he claims he suffered an overdose from medications provided by prison employees.

“Bureau of Prisons officials administered an amount of medication that significantly exceeded a safe dose and caused Mr. Kelly to overdose, putting his life in jeopardy,” reads the third supplement to his emergency motion seeking release from prison due to fears for his safety.

Kelly “takes medication for anxiety and to help him sleep, in addition to other medications,” states the supplement.

He allegedly showed his medications to prison officials when he was placed in solitary confinement last week — a move his lawyer claims was meant to punish him for filing the emergency motion.

Kelly’s lawyer also says that the alleged overdose happened almost immediately after he spoke publicly about the singer being kept in solitary confinement.

The third supplement also claims that doctors informed Kelly he had blood clots in his legs and lungs that required surgery — but prison officials refused to let him undergo that procedure because it required a week of recovery.

“Mr. Kelly’s life is in jeopardy right now because the Bureau of Prisons denied him necessary surgery to clear clots from his lungs,” the supplement says.

“He could die from this condition, and they are letting it happen. There is no legitimate explanation for that.”

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Kelly’s lawyer, Beau Brindley, tells PEOPLE the incident occurred on June 13, when Kelly woke up in solitary confinement at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C.

“He felt faint. He was dizzy. He started to see black spots in his vision,” Brindley explains.

Kelly then struggled to get up on his feet, says Brindley — and being unable to walk, he “crawled to the door of the cell and lost consciousness.”

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The singer has allegedly been in solitary confinement ever since Brindley filed an emergency motion seeking a temporary furlough for his client on June 10.

The emergency motion claimed that officials within the Bureau of Prisons were plotting to kill Kelly and requested that the singer be granted a temporary furlough, during which he would be placed under house arrest.

In addition to the motion, the filing included a declaration from an inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine, who alleged that he was asked to kill Kelly.

Stine alleged in his declaration that prison officials asked him to carry out or help facilitate the killing of Kelly before transferring him from a facility in Arizona to FCI Butner — the same prison where Kelly is now serving his sentence.

The two men even ended up in the same wing of the prison, according to Stine, and he eventually told Kelly about the alleged plot.

Stine is no stranger to legal actions, having filed well over 100 civil suits and petitions in federal court over the past two decades.

He was also convicted of threatening to assault and murder a federal magistrate judge and an assistant United States attorney back in 2015 for letters he sent from his prison cell.

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No date has been set for a hearing on that emergency motion at this time, so Brindley is attempting to get President Donald Trump to pardon Kelly, and told PEOPLE last week he was in talks with people close to the president.

Kelly has no known ties to the president but did live in Trump Tower in Chicago prior to his incarceration.

Brindley told PEOPLE last week that his client has been attacked in the past, and that his fears of a future incident are only heightened by his belief that officials inside the prison might not adequately protect the singer, or refuse to do so.

“He is not safe in federal custody,” Brindley says. “And to keep him in prison while he is under threat like this is cruel and unusual punishment.”

Spokespersons for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on the allegations, but PEOPLE obtained the government’s response to Kelly’s motion, filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Julien, who says he believes placing Kelly in solitary confinement was an effort by prison officials to protect him.

He then said that Kelly “is a serial child molester whose criminal abuse of children dates back to at least President Bill Clinton’s first term in office — decades before Kelly was taken into federal custody.”

He later noted, “Kelly has never taken responsibility for his years of sexually abusing children, and he probably never will.”

That conduct included the sexual exploitation of children, forced labor and violations of the Mann Act involving the coercion and transportation of women and girls in interstate commerce to engage in illegal sexual activity

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