"It's a very difficult place to be an inmate" — Diddy's attorney sheds light on the prison the artist is currently detained at

On Monday, September 16, federal agents apprehended Sean "Diddy" Combs at Manhattan's Park Hyatt Hotel. As per CNN, Damian Williams from the U.S. Attorney's Office in NYC, said in a statement that the arrest was made following a grand jury's indictment.

Sean "Diddy" Combs is facing charges of "racketeering, s*x trafficking by force, and transportation to engage in prostitution." However, he pleaded not guilty, and his bail was denied twice by a federal judge in New York. As per Forbes, the rapper is currently being detained at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC).

Combs' legal team proposed a detailed bail package that included a $50 million bail offer, GPS monitoring, and strict limitations on visitors, but it was ruled "insufficient" by U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter on Wednesday, September 18.

Requesting that his client await trial under house arrest at his $48 million mansion in Miami, Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo highlighted the supposed dingy and dangerous atmosphere of the MDC and argued the following in court on Wednesday,

"It’s a very difficult place to be an inmate."

In a motion for bail filed on Tuesday, Diddy's legal team elaborated on the conditions at Metropolitan Detention Center. As per the Daily Beast, the team wrote,

"Several courts in this District have recognized that the conditions at Metropolitan Detention Center are not fit for pre-trial detention. Just earlier this summer, an inmate was murdered. At least four inmates have died by suicide there in the past three years.”

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"He’s waking up on a steel bed" — Former MDC inmate describes the conditions of the prison Diddy is detained at

Opened by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a jail in the early 1990s, the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) has been New York City’s primary federal detention center since 2021. It currently houses about 1200 detainees as per AP News and is known for a laundry list of issues ranging from inmate violence, poor indoor conditions, lockdowns, and staffing shortages, among others.

The MDC is home to renowned prisoners such as musician R. Kelly, cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as detainees awaiting trials in Brooklyn and Manhattan federal courts. Detailing the alleged horrifying conditions of the facility, Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump, told the following to CNN Wednesday.

"When he wakes up, he’s staring at cinder block painted white walls, as opposed to whatever the decor of his mansions were. He’s waking up on a steel bed with a one-and-a-half-inch mattress, no pillow, in an eight by 10-foot cell that I can assure you is disgusting."

Cohen was incarcerated at the prison in 2020 after pleading guilty to eight criminal counts in August 2018.

According to CNN, Uriel Whyte, a 37-year-old awaiting trial on gun charges for over two years, was stabbed to death in jail in June 2024. Another inmate, Edwin Cordero, died a month later after being injured in a brawl. Andrew Dalack, Cordero's lawyer, told The New York Times that Mr. Cordero was “another victim of M.D.C. Brooklyn, an overcrowded, understaffed and neglected federal jail that is hell on earth.”

Sean "Diddy" Combs will be detained until trial. As per CNN, the trial date for the music mogul has yet to be set.

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