What is the “hell” prison Diddy is in, which once housed R. Kelly and the Fyre Festival conman?

Sean “Diddy” CombsAmerican rapper and producer arrested in the United States on 16, is in custody Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC)in Brooklyn, New York, awaiting trial. He is charged with criminal activity that includes sex trafficking, assault and conspiracy.

Known for its “barbaric” conditions, the U.S. federal government detention center has hosted famous faces. One of them is rapper R. Kellysentenced to 30 years in prison for child pornography and extortion.

Another name is the businessman Billy McFarlandcreator of the Fyre Festival, a lavish event for celebrities and the wealthy that flopped (and never actually happened). McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud in 2018. After serving his sentence, he says he plans to hold a second edition of the chaotic festival.

Likewise, it was there Samuel Bankman Frieddubbed the “king of cryptocurrency,” convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges involving his companies FTX and Alameda Research.

Ghislaine MaxwellHe too, Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice in the sex trafficking case, passed through the MDC.

According to the information of the The New York Times, The defense team also argued that the 54-year-old rapper’s “extraordinary” decision to fly to New York before his arrest was evidence of his “reliability and lack of risk in flying.” Prosecutors, however, countered that Diddy still poses a threat to his victims and witnesses, citing “issues [de controle] of anger and substance abuse” by the rapper.

According to the CNN American, Diddy is currently being held in the prison’s special unit, where those who require additional protection are housed, and will be kept away from other inmates.

“Hell on Earth”

The deaths cited by Diddy’s lawyers in their bail request are valid. On June 7, an inmate who had been awaiting trial for more than two years was stabbed at the MDC. The following month, another man died after being injured in a prison brawl.

At the time, the lawyer for this second defendant called the place “hell on earth” for allowing a preventable death.

THE Everyday Beast says at least four New York judges have refused to send defendants to the detention center in recent years because of the alleged conditions. One of them said in his justification that recent deaths at the site demonstrate “an environment of lawlessness within its bounds, constituting unacceptable, reprehensible and deadly mismanagement.”

In 2019, a winter power outage subjected prisoners to “freezing cells,” leaving them without heat for days. Bugs in food and mold in bathrooms have also been reported.

Source: Terra