On the morning of Friday, Sept. 20, Sean “Diddy” Combs – now identified by the Bureau of Prisons as Register Number 37452-054 – was served a 6:00 a.m. breakfast of cereal, fruit and a breakfast cake.
The earlier day, a number of sources confirmed first to PEOPLE that Combs had been positioned on suicide watch at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center within the first days of his incarceration on racketeering and intercourse crime expenses. He has pleaded not responsible to the fees.
His legal professionals inform PEOPLE he's “strong, healthy, and focused on his defense,” including in a press release Friday: “He is committed to fighting this case and has full confidence in both his legal team and the truth.”
Representing the singer, Marc Agnifilo and Teny R. Geragos, wrote in a bail proposal rejected by two Manhattan judges earlier this week that the Brooklyn facility is “not fit for pre-trial detention,” calling the circumstances there “horrific.”
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Cameron Lindsay, a retired warden of MDC-Brooklyn and an professional witness in corrections, tells PEOPLE the rapper has an extended highway forward on the Brooklyn facility.
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“His huge celebrity status and the allegations of violence against women make him a very attractive target for assault,” Lindsay says. “And in the subculture – in the world of jails and prisons – to deliver a hit on somebody like him would be considered a badge of honor.”
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Calling the ability “austere,” and “cold,” the previous warden provides: “Everything is planned. It’s not a life.”
The rapper wouldn't have entry to the web and any exterior leisure time can be spent in an enclosed space, in keeping with Lindsay.
The new environment seems to characterize a stark shift from the music mogul’s longtime superstar life, full with a $48 million residence and his personal private aircraft, which his legal professionals instructed the courtroom at his Tuesday, Sept. 17 arraignment he has been attempting to promote.
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Scott Taylor, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, who declined to verify Combs’ particular housing specs to PEOPLE, citing “privacy, safety, and security reasons,” confirms that like the other 1,217 inmates at the facility as of Friday, Combs has a 6:00 a.m. wake-up name and is anticipated to have his mattress made by 7:30 a.m.
Federal inmates are additionally topic to “at a minimum, five official inmate counts during every 24- hour period” and should be “standing at bedside,” for a few of these checks, per the 55-page Inmate Admission & Orientation Handbook, a paper copy of which Combs would have obtained when he was booked into the ability.
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On weekdays, lunch is served at 11:00 a.m. and dinner is served after the 4 p.m. headcount, per the handbook. (Weekends and holidays are on a barely shifted schedule.)
R&B singer R. Kelly was housed at MDC-Brooklyn, main as much as his personal 2021 federal conviction for intercourse crimes within the Eastern District Court of New York. His lawyer, Nicole Blank Becker, alleges to PEOPLE that guards took benefit of his superstar standing and compelled him to sing.
In a telephone interview, Blank Becker referred to as Kelly’s time on the Brooklyn facility “mentally crippling” and “one of the worst experiences that I have ever heard of.”
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“If Diddy is going to be experiencing anything like I know R. Kelly experienced, it’s not going to be good,” Blank Becker says, including her opinion that the jail is “not at all” secure.
“On the daily, we were concerned about whether or not R. Kelly was alive, frankly,” she says, including: “It is inhumane, a whole other world. I mean, grown men cry.”
In a press release to PEOPLE, Taylor stated that the Federal Bureau of Prisons “takes seriously our duty to protect the individuals entrusted in our custody, as well as maintain the safety of correctional employees and the community.”
Acknowledging “the staffing and other challenges at MDC Brooklyn,” – staffing, he says, is now at about 76 p.c – he stated an Urgent Action Team had been appointed “to take a holistic look at the challenges at MDC Brooklyn,” together with rising everlasting staffing of correctional officers and medical employees and addressing greater than 700 backlogged upkeep requests.
• Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rosner and Danielle Bacher
