Sean 'Diddy' Combs finds 'brotherhood' in prison
Sean 'Diddy' Combs has found a "strong brotherhood" among the inmates in his prison.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs has found a "strong brotherhood" in prison.
The 56-year-old rap mogul - who is serving 50 months behind bars after being convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution - was recently transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Fort Dix, New Jersey to serve out the rest of his sentence, and he has found a "home" within the facility thanks to the relationship between inmates.
Speaking through his spokesperson, the I'll Be Missing You hitmaker told TMZ: "“There’s a lot of misinterpretations about prison. There is a strong brotherhood. We all look out for each other. It’s nothing but a positive thing.
“It’s like a little bit of home in a dark place.”
To mark the Thanksgiving holiday, the rapper worked with an internal group called Bankroll Bosses to fund and supply dinner for all the inmates.
Combs and some others bought food from the commissary, spent two days preparing before distributing it to every housing unit at Fort Dix.
And despite no stoves, no microwaves, and the inmates preparing the food having to use ID cards for cutting, the prisoners enjoyed turkey with trimmings including mashed potatoes and corn, and a dessert.
A former gang leader who helped organise the initiative named B.I. said: “We cooked the food and sent it to all the buildings. Enough for about 200 people each building. It took two days to prep everything.”
Combs was transferred from Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York City to FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey on October 30. FCI Fort Dix is a low security facility and said to have better conditions than MDC Brooklyn, where Combs had been behind bars since his arrest on various sex crime charges in September 2024.
His legal team had requested he be moved to the facility in New Jersey because of its access to drug rehabilitation schemes.
The Bad Boy Records founder had complained about the conditions in MDC and his friend Charlucci Finney previously claimed Combs had suffered a terrifying incident at the prison when he woke up "with a knife to his throat".
Charlucci told the Daily Mail online: “He woke up with a knife to his throat. I don’t know whether he fought him off or the guards came, I just know that it happened.”
“If this guy had wanted to harm him, Sean would have been harmed. It would only take a second to cut his throat with a weapon and kill him.
"It was probably a way to say, ‘Next time you ain’t gonna be so lucky.’ Everything is intimidation. But with Sean it won’t work. Sean is from Harlem."
