Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorneys need the hip-hop mogul despatched to a low-security federal jail in New Jersey to serve his four-year, two-month prison sentence, telling a choose Monday that the power’s drug remedy program will assist him keep clear.
In a letter, Combs’ attorneys urged the choose presiding over his case, Arun Subramanian, to “strongly advocate” that the federal Bureau of Prisons place Combs at FCI Fort Dix, an enormous jail situated on the grounds of the joint army base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
FCI Fort Dix, considered one of a number of dozen federal prisons with a residential drug remedy program, will finest enable Combs “to deal with drug abuse points and to maximise household visitation and rehabilitative efforts,” Combs lawyer Teny Geragos wrote. He additionally cited academic and occupational packages accessible on the jail, situated about 70 miles south of New York Metropolis.
The request from Combs’ lawyer got here after Subramanian requested his attorneys on Friday on the sentencing listening to to let him know their desire for a jail facility.
Additionally Monday, President Trump instructed reporters that Combs had requested him for a pardon. Mr. Trump, referring to Combs by the nickname “Puff Daddy,” didn’t say if he would grant the request. Messages in search of touch upon Mr. Trump’s remarks was left for Combs’ attorneys and his publicity group.
Combs was sentenced on fees he transported individuals throughout state strains for sexual encounters capped a federal case that featured harrowing testimony about violence, drugs and so-called “freak-offs,” and uncovered the sordid personal lifetime of one of the most influential figures in music.
Whereas the legal case towards Combs got here to an finish, he nonetheless faces civil lawsuits, together with from a former stylist who accused Combs of sexually, bodily and emotionally abusing him whereas he was working for Combs and his label, Dangerous Boy Leisure — allegations that Combs has denied, along with his authorized group calling them “falsehoods.”
Deonte’ Nash alleged he was frightened all through his roughly decade-long expertise working for the music mogul. The 39-year-old stylist claims Combs choked him a number of instances, describing one alleged incident that occurred after he went to a restaurant with R&B singer Cassie Ventura, Combs’ ex-girlfriend, whose testimony was important in his conviction.
The “I am going to Be Lacking You” singer was convicted in July underneath the federal Mann Act, which bans transporting individuals throughout state strains for any sexual crime. His trial led to a cut up verdict, with acquittals on intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees that might have put him behind bars for all times.
Combs has been locked up at a federal jail in Brooklyn, the Metropolitan Detention Center, since his September 2024 arrest. His time there can be subtracted from his sentence, that means he might get out in about three years.
In a letter to Subramanian on the eve of sentencing, Combs mentioned he has gone via a “non secular reset” in jail and is “dedicated to the journey of remaining a drug free, non-violent and peaceable individual.”
“I thank God that I am stronger, wiser, clear, clear and sober,” he wrote.
Subramanian has not but acted on the request to advocate placement at FCI Fort Dix.
Judges typically make suggestions about the place inmates ought to serve time, but it surely’s as much as the Bureau of Prisons to resolve. These selections, the company has mentioned, are based mostly on quite a lot of elements, together with the severity of the offense, the required safety degree and an inmate’s programming wants.
FCI Fort Dix, the biggest single federal jail by inhabitants with just below 3,900 inmates, is about 64 miles (103 kilometers) southwest of New York Metropolis, the place Combs was born and rose to fame as a rapper and entrepreneur in an array of companies, together with trend, tv and liquor. An adjoining minimum-security jail camp has 210 inmates.
Combs as soon as owned a house in New Jersey, promoting it almost a decade in the past.
His main residence, based on courtroom papers, has been a $48 million mansion on an island close to Miami. That house and a mansion he owns in Los Angeles had been raided by federal brokers final yr throughout the investigation that led to his arrest.
FCI Fort Dix has been house to quite a few high-profile inmates through the years, together with reputed mobsters, drug traffickers, corrupt politicians and Martin Shkreli. For a time, it was run by the warden who had been in command of a Manhattan federal jail when financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on the jail in 2019. That warden, Lamine N’Diaye, has since retired.
In 2021, a 27-year-old Fort Dix inmate was stabbed within the eyeball by a fellow prisoner.
In 2019, a Fort Dix inmate, a former inmate and two different individuals had been arrested for utilizing a drone to smuggle in contraband together with cellphones, tobacco, weight-loss dietary supplements and eyeglasses. The identical yr, a Fort Dix correctional officer pleaded responsible in a separate case to pocketing bribes to smuggle in contraband.
Throughout his time at Fort Dix, Shkreli ended up in solitary confinement amid allegations he was utilizing a contraband smartphone to run his drug firm from behind bars. Inmates are forbidden from conducting enterprise and possessing cellphones.
