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(NewsNation) — After being arrested Monday connected national enactment trafficking and racketeering charges, euphony shaper Sean “Diddy” Combs volition apt beryllium held successful Manhattan's Metropolitan Detention Center, according to multiple media reports.
A instrumentality enforcement authoritative told CNN that Combs volition apt beryllium held by himself successful a peculiar lodging portion wrong the Brooklyn jailhouse until his tribunal quality Wednesday afternoon.
The Metropolitan Detention Center has been the superior national detention halfway since 2021, erstwhile the Metropolitan Correctional Center successful Manhattan closed aft a fig of issues that were exposed aft Jeffrey Epstein's death. Problems plaguing the installation included lax information and crumbling infrastructure, the Associated Press reported.
Federal prosecutors Tuesday indicted Combs, alleging helium abused, threatened and coerced women to fulfill his intersexual desires. A national justice ruled Combs volition stay successful custody portion helium awaits trial.
Combs pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer Marc Agnifilo said the defence squad would entreaty the bail determination during tribunal Wednesday.
Diddy astatine MDC Brooklyn
There are 1,218 radical astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center, which is located successful the Eastern New York Judicial District, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Like the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the MDC is besides "plagued by chronic understaffing, changeless lockdowns, outbreaks of violence, delayed entree to aesculapian care, and a rash of suicides and death," The Daily Beast reported.
“Several courts successful this District person recognized that the conditions astatine Metropolitan Detention Center are not acceptable for pre-trial detention," Combs' lawyers said successful a question they filed for bail Tuesday, per the quality outlet.
Mentioned by Combs' attorneys successful their filing was a June 7 incidental wherever Uriel Whyte, a antheral who had been astatine MDC for weapon charges, was stabbed to decease successful the facility. Spectrum News New York reported that Whyte was awaiting proceedings connected weapon charges for 2 years.
A 2nd antheral named Edwin Cordero died aft being injured successful a jailhouse combat successful August. Cordero's lawyer, The New York Times reported, wrote astir the "awful" conditions his lawsuit faced successful a June missive to a national judge. The prison, Cordero's lawyer said, is “an overcrowded, understaffed and neglected national jailhouse that is hellhole connected earth.” Along with the deaths this past summer, suicides and an electrical occurrence successful 2019 that caused those successful the situation to beryllium without vigor and powerfulness for days have been reported astatine MDC.
Despite objections from Combs lawyers, Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky ordered Combs to beryllium held successful custody.
“I don’t cognize that I deliberation you tin spot yourself,” Tarnofsky was quoted by the NYT arsenic saying successful tribunal Tuesday, mentioning his past of alleged unit and citing his formation risk.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
