On the morning of Friday, Sept. 20, Sean “Diddy” Combs – now recognized by the Bureau of Prisons as Register Quantity 37452-054 – was served a 6:00 a.m. breakfast of cereal, fruit and a breakfast cake.
The day past, a number of sources confirmed first to PEOPLE that Combs had been positioned on suicide watch at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle within the first days of his incarceration on racketeering and sex crime charges. He has pleaded not responsible to the costs.
His legal professionals inform PEOPLE he’s “sturdy, wholesome, and targeted on his protection,” including in an announcement Friday: “He’s dedicated to preventing this case and has full confidence in each his authorized workforce and the reality.”
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 match for pre-trial detention,” calling the situations there “horrific.”
Cameron Lindsay, a retired warden of MDC-Brooklyn and an professional witness in corrections, tells PEOPLE the rapper has a protracted highway forward on the Brooklyn facility.
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“His enormous movie star standing and the allegations of violence in opposition to girls make him a really engaging goal for assault,” Lindsay says. “And within the subculture – on the earth of jails and prisons – to ship successful on someone like him could be thought of a badge of honor.”
Calling the ability “austere,” and “chilly,” the previous warden provides: “Every thing is deliberate. It’s not a life.”
The rapper wouldn’t have entry to the web and any exterior leisure time could be spent in an enclosed space, in response to Lindsay.
The brand new environment seems to characterize a stark shift from the music mogul’s longtime movie star life, full with a $48 million residence and his personal private aircraft, which his legal professionals instructed the court docket at his Tuesday, Sept. 17 arraignment he has been making an attempt to promote.
Scott Taylor, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, who declined to substantiate Combs’ particular housing specs to PEOPLE, citing “privateness, security, and safety causes,” 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 predicted to have his mattress made by 7:30 a.m.
Federal inmates are additionally topic to “at a minimal, 5 official inmate counts throughout each 24- hour interval” and have to 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 acquired when he was booked into the ability.
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 Japanese District Courtroom of New York. His lawyer, Nicole Clean Becker, alleges to PEOPLE that guards took benefit of his movie star standing and compelled him to sing.
In a telephone interview, Clean Becker referred to as Kelly’s time on the Brooklyn facility “mentally crippling” and “one of many worst experiences that I’ve ever heard of.”
“If Diddy goes to be experiencing something like I do know R. Kelly skilled, it’s not going to be good,” Clean Becker says, including her opinion that the jail is “under no circumstances” protected.
“On the day by day, we had been involved about whether or not or not R. Kelly was alive, frankly,” she says, including: “It’s inhumane, a complete different world. I imply, grown males cry.”
In an announcement to PEOPLE, Taylor mentioned that the Federal Bureau of Prisons “takes significantly our responsibility to guard the people entrusted in our custody, in addition to keep the protection of correctional workers and the group.”
Acknowledging “the staffing and different challenges at MDC Brooklyn,” – staffing, he says, is now at about 76 % – he mentioned an Pressing Motion Staff had been appointed “to take a holistic take a look at the challenges at MDC Brooklyn,” together with growing everlasting staffing of correctional officers and medical employees and addressing greater than 700 backlogged upkeep requests.
• Further reporting by Elizabeth Rosner and Danielle Bacher