On Wednesday (July 24), Billboard reported that Young Thug’s lawyer, Brian Steel, asked Judge Paige Reese Whitaker on Tuesday (July 23) to release the Atlanta rhymer on bond and allow him to live under house arrest. The conditions would come with strict monitoring until a verdict is reached in the YSL RICO trial.
In a new legal filing, Steel reportedly claims Young Thug is experiencing “torturous conditions” in Fulton County Jail, where the Young Stoner Life Records head honcho has been in since 2022. His lawyer describes Thug as “languishing in the county jail” while being in isolation for 22 hours per day. Thug, born Jeffery Williams, reportedly sleeps in an ant-infested room and has been provided inedible food.
“Ordering Mr. Williams to wear an ankle monitor and to be in ‘total lockdown’ in his home is the equivalent to custody and confinement and has been deemed lawful confinement without the punishment imposed by the current county jail conditions wrongly imposed on Mr. Williams,” Steel wrote in the legal filing.
The new request for the judge arrives as she takes over the case for Judge Ural Glanville, who was removed earlier this month for having a a secret meeting between prosecutors and a witness. Glanville had previously denied Steel’s prior requests for bond for fear of Thug intimidating witnesses. Steel believes that won’t be an issue. He insisted to Judge Whitaker, a Superior Court judge, that Thug would submit to strict conditions under house arrest, including the use of electronic monitoring, hiring of off-duty police officers to guard him, subjecting all communications to monitoring and requiring searches of all people entering the home.
“This will prevent any possibility to intimidate a witness or otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,” Steel wrote. “With these parameters in mind, it cannot be said that Mr. Williams would be a threat or a danger to the community or any person or property in the community.”
