Sean “Diddy” Combs behind bars at MDC Brooklyn: Out of solitary, into brown jumpsuits

Rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, facing national enactment trafficking charges, has been moved retired of solitary confinement astatine the notorious MDC Brooklyn jail, the Daily News has learned.

Combs, who was indicted Tuesday connected racketeering and enactment trafficking charges, was initially placed successful the peculiar lodging unit, oregon SHU, which is SOP for high-profile detainees erstwhile they archetypal arrive. He has since been moved to the jail’s East Side, sources archer The News.

A root acquainted with the jailhouse said that the “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” rapper is getting on good with the corrections officers there. He’ll apt beryllium wearing the modular contented brownish leap suit and volition lone beryllium entitled to 1 caller brace of sneakers a year, successful enactment with situation rules.

But Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, has asked helium beryllium moved to a jailhouse successful New Jersey, telling reporters Wednesday, “I’m not going to fto him beryllium successful that jailhouse a time longer than helium has to.”

Agnifilo unsucessfully tried to get Combs released connected $50 cardinal enslaved astatine his arraignment Tuesday and again at a bail proceeding Wednesday, and plans to entreaty his detention with the U.S. Second Circuit. He did not instrumentality messages seeking remark Thursday.

Attorney for Sean Combs, Marc Agnifilo, arrives astatine the Manhattan Federal Courthouse connected Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)

In the meantime, the jail’s handbook offers a glimpse of what Comb’s regular daily volition look like.

Combs volition beryllium waking up astatine 6 a.m., and his furniture indispensable beryllium made by 7:30 a.m. He volition person to beryllium by that furniture for caput counts each day.

“The inmate is expected to beryllium lasting astatine bedside during authoritative counts held astatine 4:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., connected weekdays and 10:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m., and 9:30 p.m. connected weekends and holidays, and during immoderate exigency count,” the handbook reads.

As for clothing, he’ll apt deterioration a regularisation brownish jumpsuit. Combs was known for his high-end sneakers, but his benignant volition beryllium constricted successful lockup. He’s allowed a caller brace of sneakers erstwhile a year, and tin lone petition done a jailhouse unit subordinate if helium wants  them replaced aboriginal due to the fact that of “wear and tear.”

Judges and defence lawyers person agelong complained astir hellish conditions, extensively reported connected by The News, astatine the severely-understaffed MDC Brooklyn. The jailhouse has seen respective violent assaults and 2 stabbing murders successful caller months, inmates kick of spoiled and infested food, and unit astatine the jailhouse person been accused of ignoring superior and at-times life-threatening aesculapian issues.

Often, high-profile inmates are placed successful the SHU erstwhile they archetypal get astatine MDC Brooklyn earlier the jailhouse tin find wherever to spot him a root said.

The Metropolitan Detention Center connected 29th St. successful Brooklyn. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

The East Side of the jailhouse has 4 lodging units unfastened and successful usage connected its 3rd and 4th floors.

MDC Brooklyn is the city’s lone remaining national jail, aft the 2021 closing of the Manhattan Correctional Center —where pervert financier Jeffrey Epstein completed termination 2 years earlier. It has housed different high-profile defendants, including disgraced R &B prima R. Kelly, Epstein-enabler Ghislaine Maxwell, “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli and NXIVM enactment cult person Keith Raniere.

Federal prosecutors successful Manhattan impeach Combs of flying enactment workers crossed authorities lines and forcing women helium dated to person enactment with antheral prostitutes during marathon, drug-fueled enactment parties helium called “Freak Offs.”

If they didn’t privation to partake, helium would verbally and physically maltreatment and harass them, past “used the embarrassing and delicate recordings arsenic collateral,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams told reporters Tuesday.

Depicted successful this courtroom sketch, Sean “Diddy” Combs, left, sits astatine the defence array with 1 of his attorneys, Teny Garagos, during his bail hearing, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

When investigators searched Combs’ homes successful Miami and Los Angeles successful March, national investigators recovered much than 1,000 bottles of lubricant, images and videos of the Freak Offs, and 3 defaced AR-15 battle weapons with a large-capacity drum mag susceptible of holding 59 rounds, Williams said.

Judge Andrew Carter said astatine the bail proceeding Wednesday that Combs’ immense resources meant that nary conditions of merchandise would beryllium capable to blunt the hazard of his tampering with witnesses.

“The authorities has proven a information of obstruction and witnesser tampering and a information to the assemblage successful general,” Carter said.