R. Kelly taken off suicide watch in jail

<p>R.Kelly has been taken off suicide watch following a face-off with federal authorities in the US.</p>, <p>The singer had filed the lawsuit against the prison he was kept in after being convicted for sex crimes.</p>, <p>Kelly claimed he was being subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” which violates his 8th Amendment rights, after he was put on suicide watch at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.</p>, <p>He insisted that he wasn’t even thinking of killing himself and claimed he was placed in these harsh conditions because he is a celebrity.</p>, <p>However, the Metropolitan Detention Center Warden Heriberto H. Tellez, who was named as one of the defendants in the lawsuit, told TMZ that he has taken a decision to remove Kelly from suicide watch following a “clinical assessment.”</p>, <p>No further details on the assessment were provided.</p>, <p>Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison last Wednesday following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges.</p>