NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal professionals need the hip-hop mogul despatched to a low-security federal jail in New Jersey to serve his four-year, two-month jail sentence, telling a choose Monday that the power’s drug remedy program will assist him keep clear.
In a letter, Combs’ legal professionals urged the choose presiding over his case, Arun Subramanian, to “strongly suggest” that the federal Bureau of Prisons place Combs at FCI Fort Dix, an enormous jail situated on the grounds of the joint navy base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
FCI Fort Dix, considered one of a number of dozen federal prisons with a residential drug remedy program, will finest enable Combs “to handle drug abuse points and to maximise household visitation and rehabilitative efforts,” Combs lawyer Teny Geragos wrote.
Additionally Monday, President Donald Trump instructed reporters that Combs had requested him for a pardon. Trump, referring to Combs by the nickname “Puff Daddy,” didn’t say if he would grant the request. Messages looking for touch upon Trump’s remarks was left for Combs’ legal professionals and his publicity group.
Combs’ sentencing Friday on prices he transported individuals throughout state traces for sexual encounters capped a federal case that featured harrowing testimony about violence, medicine and so-called “freak-offs,” and uncovered the sordid non-public lifetime of one of the influential figures in music.
The “I’ll Be Lacking You” singer was convicted in July beneath the federal Mann Act, which bans transporting individuals throughout state traces for any sexual crime. His trial led to a cut up verdict, with acquittals on intercourse trafficking and racketeering prices that would have put him behind bars for all times.
Combs has been locked up at a federal jail in Brooklyn, the Metropolitan Detention Middle, since his September 2024 arrest. His time there will probably be subtracted from his sentence, which means he may get out in about three years.
In a letter to Subramanian on the eve of sentencing, Combs mentioned he has gone by means of a “non secular reset” in jail and is “dedicated to the journey of remaining a drug free, non-violent and peaceable particular person.”
“I thank God that I’m stronger, wiser, clear, clear and sober,” he wrote.
Subramanian has not but acted on the request to suggest placement at FCI Fort Dix.
Judges typically make suggestions about the place inmates ought to serve time, but it surely’s as much as the Bureau of Prisons to determine. These choices, the company has mentioned, are primarily based on a wide range of elements, together with the severity of the offense, the required safety stage and an inmate’s programming wants.
FCI Fort Dix, the most important single federal jail by inhabitants with just below 3,900 inmates, is about 64 miles (103 kilometers) southwest of New York Metropolis, the place Combs was born and rose to fame as a rapper and entrepreneur in an array of companies, together with vogue, tv and liquor. An adjoining minimum-security jail camp has 210 inmates.
Combs as soon as owned a house in New Jersey, promoting it almost a decade in the past.
His main residence, in line with court docket papers, has been a $48 million mansion on an island close to Miami. That residence and a mansion he owns in Los Angeles had been raided by federal brokers final 12 months in the course of the investigation that led to his arrest.
FCI Fort Dix has been residence to numerous high-profile inmates over time, together with reputed mobsters, drug traffickers, corrupt politicians and “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli. For a time, it was run by the warden who had been in command of a Manhattan federal jail when financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on the jail in 2019. That warden, Lamine N’Diaye, has since retired.
In 2021, a 27-year-old Fort Dix inmate was stabbed within the eyeball by a fellow prisoner.
In 2019, a Fort Dix inmate, a former inmate and two different individuals had been arrested for utilizing a drone to smuggle in contraband together with cellphones, tobacco, weight-loss dietary supplements and eyeglasses. The identical 12 months, a Fort Dix correctional officer pleaded responsible in a separate case to pocketing bribes to smuggle in contraband.
Throughout his time at Fort Dix, Shkreli ended up in solitary confinement amid allegations he was utilizing a contraband smartphone to run his drug firm from behind bars. Inmates are forbidden from conducting enterprise and possessing cellphones.
