NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a jail in New Jersey to serve out the rest of his four-year jail sentence on prostitution-related fees.
The hip-hop mogul is at the moment incarcerated on the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute, situated about 34 miles (55 kilometers) east of Philadelphia on the grounds of the joint navy base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, in accordance with his itemizing within the federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database as of Friday.
It is not instantly clear when Combs was moved from the troubled Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, the place he had been held since his arrest final September.
Attorneys for Combs and spokespersons for the company didn’t instantly reply to emails looking for remark Friday.
Combs’ attorneys had requested a decide earlier this month to “strongly recommend” transferring him to the low-security male jail in order that he may participate within the facility’s drug remedy program.
FCI Fort Dix, one in all a number of dozen federal prisons with a residential drug remedy program, would finest enable Combs “to handle drug abuse points and to maximise household visitation and rehabilitative efforts,” Teny Geragos, his lawyer, wrote in a letter.
Combs has already served about 14 months of his 50-month sentence and is about to be launched from jail on Could 8, 2028, although he can earn reductions in his time behind bars by means of his participation in substance abuse remedy and different jail packages.
Earlier this week, Combs’ attorneys requested a federal appeals court docket to quickly consider the legality of his conviction and sentence. The 55-year-old needs his enchantment to be thought-about quickly sufficient that he can profit from a discount of time spent in jail if the appeals court docket reverses his conviction, his attorneys stated.
President Donald Trump has additionally stated Combs had requested him for a pardon, although the Republican didn’t say if he would grant the request.
The founding father of Dangerous Boy Information was convicted in July of flying his girlfriends and male intercourse employees across the nation to have interaction in drug-fueled sexual encounters in a number of locations over a few years. Nevertheless, he was acquitted of intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees that would have put him behind bars for all times.
In a letter to the decide earlier than he was sentenced, Combs stated he has gone by means of a “religious reset” in jail and was “dedicated to the journey of remaining a drug free, non-violent and peaceable particular person.”
