NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a jail in New Jersey to serve out the rest of his four-year jail sentence on prostitution-related expenses.
The hip-hop mogul is at present incarcerated on the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute, situated about 34 miles (55 kilometers) east of Philadelphia on the grounds of the joint army base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, in accordance with his itemizing within the federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database as of Friday.
It is not instantly clear when Combs was moved from the troubled Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, the place he had been held since his arrest final September.
Legal professionals for Combs and spokespersons for the company didn’t instantly reply to emails in search of remark Friday.
Combs’ attorneys had requested a decide earlier this month to “strongly recommend” transferring him to the low-security male jail in order that he may participate within the facility’s drug therapy program.
FCI Fort Dix, certainly one of a number of dozen federal prisons with a residential drug therapy program, would finest enable Combs “to deal with drug abuse points and to maximise household visitation and rehabilitative efforts,” Teny Geragos, his lawyer, wrote in a letter.
Combs has already served about 14 months of his 50-month sentence and is about to be launched from jail on Might 8, 2028, although he can earn reductions in his time behind bars via his participation in substance abuse therapy and different jail packages.
Earlier this week, Combs’ attorneys requested a federal appeals courtroom to quickly consider the legality of his conviction and sentence. The 55-year-old needs his enchantment to be thought of quickly sufficient that he can profit from a discount of time spent in jail if the appeals courtroom reverses his conviction, his attorneys stated.
President Donald Trump has additionally stated Combs had requested him for a pardon, although the Republican didn’t say if he would grant the request.
The founding father of Unhealthy Boy Information was convicted in July of flying his girlfriends and male intercourse employees across the nation to interact in drug-fueled sexual encounters in a number of locations over a few years. Nonetheless, he was acquitted of intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses that would have put him behind bars for all times.
In a letter to the decide earlier than he was sentenced, Combs stated he has gone via a “non secular reset” in jail and was “dedicated to the journey of remaining a drug free, non-violent and peaceable particular person.”
