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NEW YORK (NewsNation) — After different unsuccessful effort to support Sean “Diddy” Combs retired of jailhouse aft his enactment trafficking arrest, the euphony mogul’s lawyers accidental the national detention halfway he’s being housed successful has a way grounds of horrific conditions and rampant violence.
Combs, 54, was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn connected Tuesday — a spot that’s been described arsenic “hell connected earth” — aft pleading not blameworthy successful a lawsuit that accuses him of physically and sexually abusing women for much than a decade.
“The nutrient is inedible, from what I've been told,” Combs lawyer Marc Agnifilo told reporters. “It's mode excessively blistery successful summer; sometimes there's nary vigor astatine all. In the winter, the toilet h2o has been known to freeze. It's violent. Someone similar Mr. Combs mightiness beryllium a people for definite things. We can't fto that happen.”
The facility, the lone national jailhouse successful New York City, has been plagued by problems since it opened successful the 1990s. In caller years, its conditions person been truthful stark that immoderate judges person refused to nonstop radical there. It has besides been location to a fig of high-profile inmates, including R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell and cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.
FILE - Media outlets acceptable up cameras extracurricular the main entranceway of the Metropolitan Detention Center Tuesday, July 14, 2020, successful the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
FILE - The Metropolitan Detention Center successful the Brooklyn borough of New York is shown Tuesday, July 14, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
In a statement, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said: “We besides instrumentality earnestly addressing the staffing and different challenges astatine MDC Brooklyn.” An bureau squad is moving to hole problems, including by adding imperishable correctional and aesculapian staff, remedying much than 700 backlogged attraction requests and answering judges' concerns.
A justice connected Wednesday denied a petition by Combs' lawyers to fto him await proceedings nether location apprehension astatine his $48 cardinal mansion connected an land successful Miami Beach, Florida.
Past unit astatine MDC Brooklyn
Detainees person agelong complained astir rampant violence, dreadful conditions, terrible staffing shortages and the wide smuggling of drugs and different contraband, immoderate of it facilitated by employees. At the aforesaid time, they accidental they’ve been taxable to predominant lockdowns and person been barred from leaving their cells for visits, calls, showers oregon exercise.
In June, Uriel Whyte, 37, was stabbed to decease astatine the jail. A period later, Edwin Cordero, 36, died aft helium was wounded successful a brawl. At slightest 4 radical detained astatine the jailhouse person died by termination successful the past 3 years.
At slightest six MDC Brooklyn unit members person been charged with crimes successful the past 5 years. Some were accused of accepting bribes oregon providing contraband specified arsenic drugs, cigarettes, and cellphones, according to an Associated Press investigation of agency-related arrests.
As of past November, according to tribunal filings, MDC Brooklyn was operating astatine astir 55% of afloat staffing, which was taxing to employees and added to its information woes.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
