Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs shouldn’t expect special treatment at the infamous prison

A former director at the facility told Business Insider that Combs can expect to be treated like any of the other 1,200 inmates at the Brooklyn prison.

“Anytime someone is detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center, it’s never going to be a picnic,” Cameron Lindsay, the retired warden, told BI.

The prison “is hell on earth for anyone unfortunate enough to live there,” Mark Bederow, a criminal attorney and former Manhattan district attorney, told BI.

“Going from living in villas in Beverly Hills and Miami to MDC is an epic change of circumstances,” Bederow said, adding, “All that money’s not going to make it warmer when it’s cold, cold when it is. hot. It will not make the food more edible.

U.S. District Judge Robyn Tarnofsky on Tuesday ordered Combs to be jailed ahead of his criminal trial during a federal court hearing in Manhattan, where prosecutors argued that Combs could try to flee the country or try to interfere with the trafficking investigation sexual.

At the hearing, Combs pleaded not guilty sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and illegal transportation for prostitution.

Meanwhile, Combs’ attorneys have appealed the judge’s decision and will present their case in court at a hearing later Wednesday to try to get their entrepreneur client out of jail.

The bills are probably kept in a small single-cell facility, away from the general population

Lindsay, the former warden at the prison – who has long faced reports of poor conditions and violence – told BI Combs that he should not expect any special treatment during his stay at the facility preventive.

“He will be treated the same as any other inmate,” said Lindsay, who served as director at MDC from 2007 to 2009.

Lindsay said Combs is most likely kept away from the general inmate population for his own safety.

“Given his celebrity and rap star status, I would of course think he would be single-celled and isolated in very austere conditions,” Cameron Lindsay told BI.

The space will be a “stereotypical”-style concrete jail cell with a steel sink and toilet, Lindsay said, calling it “shockingly different” from the lifestyle Combs is used to.

Lindsay said Combs is better separated from the general inmate population because the charges against him make him a target for other inmates.

Federal prosecutors allege in an indictment that for decades, Combs “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct.”

Combs’ celebrity status “combined with the fact that the charges against him relate to the abuse of women would certainly make him an easier target — one that some inmates would certainly try to exploit,” a Lindsay said.

Combs’ attorneys declined to comment for this story, but pointed BI to the appeal they filed, which notes that “several courts in this District have recognized that the conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center are not suitable for pretrial detention.”

“Just earlier this summer, an inmate was killed. At least four inmates have committed suicide there in the past three years. Numerous courts in this district have expressed concern about the horrific conditions of detention there,” they wrote Combs’ attorneys.

Bederow, the former federal prosecutor, told BI that conditions at MDC are “so bad that lawyers are filing motions to avoid detention based on the miserable conditions there.”

“And sometimes it works,” he said.