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 costs.
The hip-hop mogul is presently incarcerated on the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute, situated about 34 miles (55 kilometers) east of Philadelphia on the grounds of the joint army base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, in accordance with his itemizing within the federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database as of Friday.
It isn’t 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 in search of remark Friday.
Combs’ legal professionals had requested a choose earlier this month to “strongly recommend” transferring him to the low-security male jail in order that he might participate within the facility’s drug remedy program.
FCI Fort Dix, one in every of a number of dozen federal prisons with a residential drug remedy program, would greatest permit 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 ready to be launched from jail on Might 8, 2028, although he can earn reductions in his time behind bars via his participation in substance abuse remedy and different jail packages.
Earlier this week, Combs’ legal professionals requested a federal appeals court docket to quickly consider the legality of his conviction and sentence. The 55-year-old desires his attraction to be thought of quickly sufficient that he can profit from a discount of time spent in jail if the appeals court docket reverses his conviction, his legal professionals 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 Data was convicted in July of flying his girlfriends and male intercourse staff across the nation to have interaction in drug-fueled sexual encounters in a number of locations over a few years. Nonetheless, he was acquitted of intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs that might have put him behind bars for all times.
In a letter to the choose earlier than he was sentenced, Combs stated he has gone via a “religious reset” in jail and was “dedicated to the journey of remaining a drug free, non-violent and peaceable individual.”
