Sean “Diddy” Combs and fellow inmate Luigi Mangione are dealing with even stricter confinement at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle (MDC) after a violent brawl erupted amongst inmates final week. The “race riot,” reportedly involving over 40 prisoners, led to a facility-wide lockdown, quickly suspending all household and good friend visits for at the least a month.
MDC Positioned on Lockdown After Large Battle
In keeping with DailyMail.com’s podcast The Trial of Diddy, federal jail marketing consultant Sam Mangel revealed that MDC has been in “modified operation” since final week’s incident. Whereas Combs, Mangione, and different high-profile inmates, together with disgraced crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried, weren’t immediately concerned, all prisoners within the facility are being subjected to the identical restrictive measures.
Talking on The Trial of Diddy, Mangel detailed the tough circumstances Combs now faces beneath lockdown:
“He’s locked down now, at the least 23 out of 24 hours. I’m positive they permit him out at the least 3 times every week for a bathe, perhaps to make a cellphone name, however that’s about it. So he’s being fed in his cell, it’s a six by 9 cell with a bit of slat for a window.”
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confirmed that a number of inmates had been concerned within the February 22 altercation, which resulted in a number of accidents, with two people requiring outdoors medical therapy. No jail workers had been harmed within the melee.
Diddy’s Life Inside MDC
Regardless of being housed individually from the violent incident, Combs and Mangione stay absolutely affected by the lockdown. Mangel defined that whereas they’re segregated from basic inhabitants disturbances, they’re nonetheless subjected to the identical restrictive measures as all different inmates.
“They’re on a really segregated flooring from everyone else. Now, they’re punished the identical as everybody else within the facility. Sadly, whereas happily, they could be safer.”
Earlier than the lockdown, Diddy reportedly interacted with fellow inmates, passing the time by taking part in spades and board video games. In keeping with Mangel, Combs gave the impression to be adjusting to his incarceration:
“It was round vacation time, so I imagine he was as depressed as some other man that was there that couldn’t be with their household… however he was as pleasant and congenial as everybody else on that flooring. I’m positive he laughed at instances.”
Regardless of the grim actuality of his scenario, Combs stays hopeful. He and different pre-trial detainees nonetheless imagine of their probabilities of beating their fees.
MDC’s Infamous Repute and What Comes Subsequent for Diddy
MDC, which homes over 1,600 inmates, has lengthy been criticized for its inhumane circumstances. In 2019, the power made headlines after prisoners endured days with out warmth or electrical energy in winter. The current riot solely reinforces its popularity as a harmful and poorly managed establishment.
Combs has been locked up at MDC since his arrest final September on intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees. He has been denied bail a number of instances and stays in custody awaiting trial on Could 5.
If convicted, Mangel means that Combs must be positioned in USP Tucson, a high-security jail with a specialised unit for intercourse offenders, the place he would obtain increased safety from different inmates.
“If I had been consulting him, ought to he be discovered responsible, I’d be working along with his authorized staff to get him to one of the best facility primarily based upon his sentence.”
For now, Combs stays confined to his small cell, with solely authorized visits permitted whereas MDC stays beneath lockdown. As his trial date approaches, the Unhealthy Boy mogul faces an unsure future, the place his destiny now rests within the fingers of the courtroom system.
