Officials from the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice’s inspector general’s office and additional federal agencies targeted the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), Monday, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Federal law enforcement activated an “interagency operation” at the federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is currently held without bail, according to The Associated Press (AP). The Bureau of Prisons said its Brooklyn mission was planned previously and “no active threat” exists. The facility faced scrutiny over allegations of bad conditions, serious violence and several deaths.
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 4: Shalicia Anderson joins a handful of prison rights activists and relatives of the incarcerated continue to protest outside the Metropolitan Detention Center on February 4, 2019 in the Sunset Park neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Her husband, Terrick Whitaker, has been locked up in the federal facility for six months awaiting his trial. The federal prison lost power and heat for at least a week during a polar vortex. According to prison officials, power has been restored. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
The Bureau of Prisons said the operation was “designed to achieve our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our employees and the incarcerated individuals housed at MDC Brooklyn,” according to the AP.
Prison officials did not release specific information on the operation that unfolded Monday, but maintained that they are increasing efforts to ensure the prison’s problems are rectified and perpetrators are held accountable for their actions.
Federal prosecutors charged nine people incarcerated in the MDC in connection with a series of attacks there between April and August this September. An inmate allegedly kicked off a murder-for-hire plot using a contraband cellphone from behind bars earlier in October. That inmate was awaiting sentencing on another shooting years prior, according to the AP.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 3: The family of Jamel Floyd, a prisoner at the Metropolitan Detention Center federal jail who died four years ago after being pepper sprayed in his cell, release balloons as part of an annual memorial and protest in front of the jail on the anniversary of his death, June 3, 2024 in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Joined by a few supporters, the family is still demanding accountability from the jailers and the Federal Bureau of Prisons for Jamel’s death. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
Charges allege two inmates were fatally stabbed and a third was jabbed in his spine in recent months, according to the AP. A correctional officer was accused of shooting at a car amid an unsanctioned high-speed chase. Inmates have long accused the jail of appalling conditions, lack of staff and considerable smuggling of drugs and other illicit items. These items were at times allegedly facilitated by employees of the prison.
The Bureau of Prisons said it would withhold any further details until the investigation was carried out “in an effort to maintain the safety and security of all personnel inside the facility and the integrity of this operation.” (RELATED: Diddy Placed On Suicide Watch In Prison: REPORT)
The Metropolitan Detention Center is the only federal jail in New York City. In addition to Combs, the prison also houses Sam Bankman-Fried. Lower Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center , which once housed Jeffrey Epstein, was closed in 2021.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
