NEW YORK — The New York City jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held was the subject of an interagency investigation Monday, federal prison officials said.
The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn is currently holding Combs on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Other notable inmates have been held here over the years, from R. Kelly to Sam Bankman Freed.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement to CBS News that the operation was “designed to achieve the common goal of maintaining a safe environment for both employees and the inmates housed at MDC Brooklyn.” Ta.
The statement added that there is no ongoing threat within the facility.
The department cooperated with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General and other law enforcement agencies in the investigation.
Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn’s Grievance History
The operation comes as MDC Brooklyn faces intense scrutiny over deaths, violence and dire conditions. The Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice are working to resolve the issue and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Last month, nine inmates were charged in connection with a series of attacks at the troubled prison. Federal prosecutors shared serious safety and security concerns, including two inmates being stabbed to death and a corrections officer firing into a car during an unauthorized chase.
MDC Brooklyn has been the city’s only federal prison since MCC New York, where Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, closed in 2021. The waterfront industrial park houses 1,200 people, mostly those awaiting federal trials in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
MDC Brooklyn inmates previously won a $10 million class-action settlement in 2019 over frigid conditions during an eight-day power outage.
Kelly is suing the prison for unfairly putting her on suicide watch after her 2022 sentencing, and Bankman Freed’s lawyers say the prison failed to provide her with vegan food while she was in custody last year. Kelly said she survived on bread, water and peanut butter.
Ja Rule also spent a short time at MDC Brooklyn on firearms charges, and the Rev. Al Sharpton went on a hunger strike while serving a 90-day sentence in 2001 to protest the U.S. Navy’s bombing of Vieques, Puerto Rico. .
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