Sources told People on Thursday that the 54-year-old rapper, Sean “Diddy” Combs, is under observation after being denied bail.
His detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, includes suicide watch, a measure for inmates with suicidal tendencies requiring frequent monitoring, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Corrections.
The detention center, opened in 1994 and housing over 1,200 people, is notorious for violence, unsanitary conditions, food contamination, and suicides, as reported by The New York Times.
In July, a prisoner died from injuries sustained during a fight at the facility, which a lawyer described as an “overcrowded, understaffed, and neglected federal prison that is hell on earth.”
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs placed on suicide watch after being denied bail in sex trafficking, racketeering trial: report https://t.co/YEizKpXFgM pic.twitter.com/HgUMDQiIpe
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Combs, founder of Bad Boy Records, was charged in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday with human trafficking, extortion, and transporting individuals for prostitution. The 14-page indictment accuses Combs of creating a criminal enterprise involved in human trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.
During raids in March on his Miami and Los Angeles mansions, federal agents reportedly found drugs, more than 1,000 bottles of lubricant, and three AR-15 rifles. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
