Jussie Smollett is being held within the psych ward at a Chicago jail — and his brother is flipping out.
The 39-year-old “Empire” actor, who stays on the Cook dinner County Jail after being sentenced to 5 months behind bars for staging a hate crime, was thrown into the ward due to a paperwork snafu, his brother claims.
“What’s very regarding is that there was a observe connected to the paperwork at this time, and it stated on the entrance of his jail cell … that he’s prone to self-harm,” Jocqui Smollett said on Instagram.
“I wish to simply make it clear to people that he’s on no account form or kind in danger to self-harm and he needs to let people know that, that he’s very steady, he’s very robust, he’s very wholesome and able to tackle the problem that finally has been put up in opposition to him,” the sibling stated within the publish Saturday.
“This isn’t proper,” Jocqui Smollett stated. “That is full lack of justice. It’s angering, it’s an outrage.”
Officers stated final week that Jussie Smollett, who ranted he wasn’t suicidal as he was hauled out of courtroom Thursday, can be held in protecting custody.
A law-enforcement source told TMZ that the troubled actor was within the psych ward as a result of it’s one of many areas within the jail the place high-profile inmates are housed.
Jussie Smollett was discovered responsible on 5 counts of felony disorderly conduct after an eight-day trial stemming from the staged 2019 assault.
The actor claimed he was the sufferer of a racist, homophobic assault in downtown Chicago in 2019 — with investigators later figuring out that he conspired with two brothers to stage the assault as a result of he was sad along with his “Empire” pay.
