R. Kelly Has Not Escaped From Prison

R. Kelly has not escaped from prison. Over the past day or so, you may have noticed an uptick in X posts claiming that the “I Believe I Can Fly” artist has managed a prison break. To be clear, he has not. Per online inmate listings, Kelly remains incarcerated at a federal prison facility in North Carolina following multiple convictions, production of child pornography among them. As of this writing, a release date is listed of Dec. 21, 2045. While it wasn’t clear where the latest fake prison escape claim originated, a likely source is Daily Noud, a parody account on X. Despite the parody label of the account, and no doubt due to a detrimental dearth of critical thinking that has come to define the 2020s, the claim has been repeated multiple times on social media.

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