Federal agencies launched an “interagency operation” on Monday at the troubled lockup in New York City where Sean 'Diddy' Combs is being held. Investigators from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office and other law enforcement agencies descended on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Monday, the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press. The law enforcement operation is “designed to achieve our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our employees and the incarcerated individuals,,” the agency said. The move comes as the jail has faced more scrutiny over horrific conditions, rampant violence and multiple deaths and amid a push by the Justice Department to fix problems at the jail and hold perpetrators accountable.
Last month, federal prosecutors charged nine inmates in a spate of attacks from April to August at the only federal jail in New York City. The allegations detailed serious safety and security issues at the jail, including charges after two inmates were stabbed to death and another was speared in the spine with a makeshift icepick. A correctional officer was charged with shooting at a car during an unauthorized high-speed chase. The criminal charges offered a window into violence and dysfunction that has plagued the jail, which houses about 1,200 people, including Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange.