After being sentenced to four years in prison on Friday for his conviction for charges related to prostitution, Sean “Diddy” Combs returned to a Brooklyn prison where more than a year has passed in conditions that his lawyers call violent and inhuman.
Prosecutors say that the conditions in the Metropolitan Detention Center have improved in the time that Comorts has passed there since its arrest of September 16, 2024. They cite higher levels of personnel, repairs of facilities and a reduction in the number of blockages.
The 50-month judgment of combs, imposed by the American district judge Arun Subramanian at a hearing in the Federal Court of Manhattan, occurs after the Hip-Hop tycoon was sentenced in July for two transport positions to participate in prostitution. The jury had acquitted him for the most serious positions of sexual trafficking and extortion, which could have won a life imprisonment.
Comink declared himself innocent of all charges and is expected to appeal his conviction. In the coming weeks or months, the combs will be assigned to a federal prison where he will meet the rest of his sentence, but for now, the combs will remain imprisoned in Brooklyn.
Combs sleep in the bedroom -style room
The MDC, which has also had sentenced sexual traffickers such as the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the rhythm singer and blues R. Kelly, is far from the luxurious combs of the mansions of Los Angeles and Miami called Home until last year.
According to his lawyers, combs, 55, sleeps at two feet from other inmates in a bedroom -style room. The bathroom, without a door, is in the same room, the defense lawyers wrote in a judicial presentation of September 22 that urges the American district judge Arun Subramanian to impose a low sentence.
“The living conditions in the MDC remain inhuman,” their lawyers wrote. “Mr. combs has not breathed fresh air in almost 13 months, nor has he felt the sunlight in his skin.”
At one time during their imprisonment, the guards arrested someone who tried to cut combs with an impromptu knife, said defense lawyer Brian Steel at the judgment hearing on Friday.
In recent years, MDC has been plagued with a shortage of persistent personnel, power cuts and worms in the food of inmates. Two weeks after combs arrest, prosecutors announced criminal charges against nine MDC inmates for crimes, including assault, attempted murder and murder in the installation in the months prior to combs.
In January last year, the US district judge based in Manhattan, Jesse Furman, refused to order a man accused of drug crimes stopped waiting for trial in the MDC, qualifying the conditions there a “continuous tragedy, opens a new tab.”
But at a sentence hearing in a different case last May, Furman said the conditions in jail had improved. In a presentation of the Julio Court in the case of combs, prosecutors said the jail housed 300 inmates less than in January 2024 and that the incidents of armed violence had decreased.
The United States Prison Office, which operates MDC, did not respond to a request for comments. The agency said previously that it was involved in intensive efforts to improve the conditions in jail.
Prosecutors dispute combs claims
The combs lawyers said he had been in surveillance suicide almost constantly, which means that the guards wake him up while sleeping to make sure he is fine and must present their identification card to the guards every two hours.
They said that a video call of September 12 with combs was interrupted by a stabbing that led to a closure of one day.
Prosecutors said that combs description of their conditions was misleading or inaccurate. They said in a presentation of September 30 that he had been in suicide for a total of seven days, and that there had been no blockades in the combs unit during their time in MDC.
Regarding Comong’s statement that he had not felt sunlight or fresh air, prosecutors said he had daily access to a “partially exposed” recreational space to allow sunlight and air flow.
The combs lawyers have recognized a benefit of their imprisonment: they say that after a 25 -year -old drug addiction, he is now sober.
