NEW YORK – Investigators from several federal agencies on Monday launched an “interagency operation” into the troubled New York City jail where Sean “Diddy” combs is being celebrated.
Investigators from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General and other law enforcement agencies arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Monday, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement to the Associated Press.
The police operation is “designed to achieve our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our employees and the incarcerated individuals housed at MDC Brooklyn,” the agency said. Corrections officials declined to provide specific details about the operation Monday morning.
But the measure comes like prison. has faced increasing scrutiny over horrific conditionsrampant violence and multiple deaths and amid pressure from the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons to solve problems in prison and hold perpetrators accountable.
last month, Federal prosecutors charged nine inmates in connection with a series of attacks from April to August at the Metropolitan Detention Center, the only federal prison in New York City.
Indictments made public last month detailed serious security problems at the jail, including charges after two inmates were stabbed to death and another was impaled in the spine with a makeshift ice pick.
A correctional officer was also accused of shooting at a car during an unauthorized high-speed chase.
The criminal charges offered a window into the violence and dysfunction that has plagued the jail, which houses about 1,200 people, including Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
In a statement Monday, the Bureau of Prisons said its operation in Brooklyn was pre-planned and that there is “no active threat.”
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The agency said it would not provide additional details about what exactly investigators were doing there Monday until the operation is complete “in an effort to maintain the safety of all personnel within the facility and the integrity of this operation.”
The facility, in an industrial area on the Brooklyn waterfront, has about 1,200 detainees, up from more than 1,600 in January.
It is primarily used for the post-arrest detention of persons awaiting trial in federal courts in Manhattan or Brooklyn. Other inmates are there to serve short sentences after being convicted.
Detainees at the Brooklyn jail have long complained of rampant violence, appalling conditions, severe staffing shortages and widespread smuggling of drugs and other contraband, some of it facilitated by employees.
At the same time, they say they have been subjected to frequent confinement and have been prohibited from leaving their cells for visits, calls, showers or exercise.
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