NEW YORK — The New York City jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held was the subject of an interagency investigation Monday, federal prison officials said.
Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center Currently housing Koms above Sex trafficking and extortion charges. Other notable prisoners include: R. Kelly to Sam Bankman Freedhas been held there for many years.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement to CBS News that the operation was “designed to achieve the common goal of maintaining a safe environment for both employees and the inmates housed at MDC Brooklyn.” Ta.
The statement added that there is no ongoing threat within the facility.
The department cooperated with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General and other law enforcement agencies in the investigation.
Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn’s Grievance History
The operation comes as MDC Brooklyn faces intense scrutiny over deaths, violence and dire conditions. The Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice are working to resolve the issue and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Last month, nine inmates were charged in connection with a series of attacks at the troubled prison. Federal prosecutors shared serious safety and security concerns after two inmates were stabbed to death and a correctional officer shot at a car during an unauthorized chase.
MDC Brooklyn is the only federal prison in the city since MCC New York. Jeffrey Epstein dies by suicide — Closed in 2021. The waterfront industrial park houses 1,200 people, mostly those awaiting federal trials in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
MDC Brooklyn inmates previously won a $10 million class action settlement in 2019 over frigid conditions during an eight-day power outage.
Kelly sued the prison mistakenly put him on suicide watch rear His sentencing will be in 2022.And Bankman Freed’s lawyer said he survived on bread, water and peanut butter after he was released from prison. They were unable to provide vegan food during my stay last year.
Jarule too I stayed at MDC Brooklyn for a short time. Pastor Al Sharpton went on a hunger strike in 2001 while serving a 90-day sentence to protest the U.S. Navy’s bombing of Vieques, Puerto Rico.