Sean "Diddy" Combs stayed the night at a jail known for housing several prominent celebrities as he awaits a decision today on being released on bail ahead of his sex trafficking trial.
Combs, 54, pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges on Tuesday. Combs requested to be released on bail but was denied by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky, who said she had "very significant concerns" about Combs' substance abuse and "what appears to be anger issues."
His legal team plans to appeal the decision at a hearing on Wednesday.
Combs is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
The facility has previously housed R. Kelly, Fetty Wap, Michael Cohen, Allison Mack and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The population of the prison was 1,712 in 2022. The facility holds male and female inmates of all security levels. It mainly houses inmates awaiting trial and some serving short sentences.
The facility serves as the primary federal detention center in New York when the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Jeffrey Epstein died, closed in 2021 due to poor conditions.
Last month, the Federal Bureau of Prisons temporarily stopped sending individuals entering the prison system to the Metropolitan Detention Center.
The news came after Long Island Federal Court Judge Gary Brown said he would vacate a nine-month sentence for a 75-year-old convicted of tax scamming and opt for house arrest instead if the inmate was sent to Metropolitan Detention Center. He claimed the conditions at the facility are "dangerous" and "barbaric."
He alleged a pattern of violence in the prison, including two murders and an assault caught on camera.
"Taken together, these incidents demonstrate a woeful lack of supervision over the facility, a breakdown of order and an environment of lawlessness within its confines that constitute unacceptable, reprehensible and deadly mismanagement," Brown said.
Multiple inmates have also died by a suicide and an electrical fire once left the inmates without heat for several days.
Lawyers for Combs cited several of these concerns in a letter to the judge. They also argued that other judges "have recognized that the conditions at Metropolitan Detention Center are not fit for pretrial detention."
Combs is expected to appear in court again on Wednesday. Combs rose to popularity in the 1990s as a rapper and music producer. Prior to his arrest, he was sued multiple times for sexual misconduct.
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