After being sentenced to four years in prison on Friday about his conviction of prostitution-related charges, Sean returned Sean “Diddy” Combs to a Brooklyn prison, where he has spent more than a year in relationships his lawyers call violent and inhuman.
Prosecutors say the conditions of the Metropolitan Detention Center have improved during the time Combs has spent there since his 16th September 2024 arrest station. They cite increased staff level, construction repairs and a reduction in the number of lockdowns.
Combs ’50 month’s judgment imposed by US district judge Arun Subramanian during a hearing in Manhattan Federal Court comes after the hip-hop mogul was sentenced in July for two transport counts to attend prostitution. The jury had acquitted him of the more serious counts of sex trade and racketing, which could have earned him a lifetime.
Combs did not claim to blame for all charges and is expected to appeal his conviction. Combs will be awarded a federal prison in the coming weeks or months, where he will serve the rest of his sentence, but for now Combs will remain imprisoned in Brooklyn.
Combs sleeps in dormitory
MDC, who has also had convicted sex dealers such as British Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and Rhythm and Blues Singer R. Kelly, are far from the luxurious Los Angeles and Miami Mansions Combs called home until last year.
According to his lawyers, Combs, 55, sleeps within two meters of other inmates in a dormitory. The bathroom, without a door, is located in the same room, the defense attorneys wrote in a 22nd September Law, which called on the US district judge Arun Subramanian to put a low verdict.
“Life conditions on MDC remain inhuman,” wrote his lawyers. “Mr Combs has not breathed fresh air in almost 13 months or felt sunlight on his skin.”
At one point during his imprisonment, the guards stopped someone who tried to cut combs with a provisional knife, defense lawyer Brian Steel said during Friday’s criminal sentence.
In recent years, MDC has been plagued by sustained staff shortages, power cuts and maggots in inmates’ food. Two weeks after Combs’ arrest, prosecutors announced criminal charges against nine MDC inmates for crimes, including assault, murder attempts and murders of the facility in the months before Combs arrived.
Last January, Manhattan-based US district judge Jesse Furman refused to command a man accused of drug crime detained pending the trial at MDC, and called the conditions there an “ongoing tragedy opens a new tab.”
But in a penalty in another case in May, Furman said the conditions in prison had improved. In a July court in Combs’ case, prosecutors said the prison housed 300 fewer inmates than in January 2024 and that events with armed violence had fallen.
The US Bureau for Prisons operating MDC did not respond to a request for comment. The agency has previously said it was involved in intensive efforts to improve conditions in prison.
Prosecutors Dispute Combs’ claims
Combs’ attorneys said he had been on suicide almost constantly, which means he is awakened by guards while he sleeps to make sure he is well and has to present his identification card to guards every two hours.
They said a video call on September 12 with Combs was interrupted by a stabbing stabbing that led to a day -long lockdown.
Prosecutors said Combs’ description of his relationship was misleading or inaccurate. They said in an archiving on September 30 that he had been on suicide for a total of seven days and that there had been no lockdowns in Combs’ Unit in his time at MDC.
As for Combs’ claim that he had not felt sunlight or fresh air, the charges said he had daily access to a “partially exposed” recreational space to allow sunlight and air flow.
Combs’ lawyers have recognized an advantage of his imprisonment: They say after a 25-year-old drug abuse, he is now sober.
