If lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs get their way, the hip-hop mogul will spend his next few years in a massive low-security prison with a drug abuse treatment program, not too far from family.
Combs’ lawyers on Monday asked Judge Arun Subramanian to recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that he be placed at FCI Fort Dix, a federal correctional facility in Fort Dix, New Jersey.
There, Combs can “address drug abuse issues” and “maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts,” defense attorney Teny Geragos wrote in a letter to the court. The letter specifically noted FCI Fort Dix’s “RDAP” program, or Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program.
The letter comes days after Combs was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for his July conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He has already served just over a year in detention since his arrest last September and so is now looking at less than three more years behind bars.
FCI Fort Dix is the largest single federal prison in the US with just over 4,100 total male inmates, including about 3,900 at the FCI and about 200 at an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp, according to its website.
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