What Jail Is Diddy In? Here’s What We Know About The Brooklyn Detention Center
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Sean “Diddy” Combs was denied bond for a second time on Wednesday and will remain in federal custody until his trial for racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
On Tuesday, Diddy was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which some have described as “hell on earth” and an “ongoing tragedy,” according to AP.
The detention facility, which opened in the 1990s, is the only federal jail in New York City and is designed to house those who are awaiting trial, denied bail or have not been arraigned. It is home to about 1,200 detainees and has housed some high-profile names like R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell.
It’s also notorious for its extreme violence and lack of adequate medical care.
In April, an inmate housed at MDC Brooklyn was stabbed 44 times by MS-13 gang members. The vicious attack was caught on camera, luckily, the inmate survived.
In June, an inmate who had been housed at the facility for two years awaiting trial on a federal gun case was stabbed to death in a fight with an inmate over drugs. At least four inmates have also died by suicide in the last three years, according to AP.
“I have a client who spent 25 years in federal prison somewhere else, and he’s like, ‘Get me the hell out of the MDC,’” defense lawyer Xavier Donaldson told NBC News. “It has a way of breaking people.”
Judges have even recently refused to send people there due to its horrid conditions.
In January, U.S. District Judge Furman took the rare step of allowing Gustavo Chavez, 70, to remain free on bail after his conviction for drug crimes rather than locking him up at the Brooklyn jail to await sentencing.
“Prosecutors no longer even put up a fight, let alone dispute that the state of affairs is unacceptable,” Furman wrote.
In August, U.S. District Judge Gary Brown said he would vacate a 75-year-old defendant’s nine-month sentence for tax fraud and place him on home confinement if the Bureau of Prisons sent him to MDC Brooklyn.
In response, the Bureau of Prisons said it had “temporarily paused” sending any defendants convicted of crimes to the jail to serve their sentences. In a statement Tuesday, the agency said 43 people were currently serving sentences in a minimum-security unit at the jail.
In 2021, the Metropolitan Detention Center became NYC’s only federal jail after the Justice Department shut down the Metropolitan Correctional Center a few years after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide.
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As previously reported by NewsOne, Combs, 54, was indicted by a federal grand jury on sex trafficking and racketeering charges shortly after his arrest on Sept.16 in New York. The indictment, released on Tuesday, outlines a series of alarming allegations against the Bad Boy Records founder. It accuses him of engaging in a “persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals,” which he allegedly used to satisfy his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his misconduct.
Diddy's inmate entry on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' website:
"Release Date: UNKNOWN" pic.twitter.com/nMeH3O93hc
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) September 19, 2024
Combs trial date has not yet been scheduled. If convicted, his sentence could range anywhere from 15 years to life in prison.
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