Sean Combs is collaborating in a drug rehabilitation program behind bars that would cut back his sentence by as a lot as a 12 months, his spokesman Juda Engelmayer stated.
The founding father of Unhealthy Boy Leisure is dedicated to sobriety, therapeutic and attempting to set an instance for others, Engelmayer stated.
“Mr. Combs is an lively participant within the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) and has taken his rehabilitation course of critically from the beginning,” Engelmayer stated. “He’s absolutely engaged in his work, centered on development, and dedicated to constructive change.”
A federal inmate locator signifies Combs is predicted to be launched in Could 2028. Finishing the rehab program might imply an earlier launch, although he would nonetheless face 5 years of supervision, in addition to drug testing and psychological well being conferences prescribed beneath his sentence, which he’s interesting.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of greater than 11 years. The disgraced music mogul was sentenced Oct. 3 to 50 months in jail following his conviction on two counts of transporting folks for prostitution. He obtained credit score for 14 months of time served earlier than sentencing.
The rehabilitation program is offered at Federal Correctional Establishment Fort Dix — a low-security federal jail in New Jersey — the place Combs arrived on Oct. thirtieth, Engelmayer stated. Combs has been accepted into this system and is working within the chapel library there, the spokesman stated.
“He works within the chapel library, the place he describes the setting as heat, respectful, and rewarding,” Engelmayer stated.
Information of Combs collaborating within the rehab program was first reported by the New York Instances.
Throughout trial, ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified that Combs used violence to coerce her into collaborating in so-called freak-offs, drug-fueled intercourse events with intercourse employees he employed. Afterward, she testified, she felt “disgusted” and “humiliated.”
At Combs’ sentencing, U.S. District Choose Arun Subramanian stated Combs “abused the ability and management with ladies you professed to like.”
“You abused them bodily, emotionally and psychologically,” he stated.
Combs apologized to Ventura and one other former girlfriend, describing his actions as “disgusting, shameful and sick.”
After his conviction in July, Combs’ authorized staff reached out to President Donald Trump to hunt a pardon, a supply near the protection stated in early August.
On Aug. 1, the president stated in an interview with Newsmax that he was beforehand “very pleasant” with Combs, however that Combs “was very hostile” when Trump ran for workplace. Requested if he was suggesting he wouldn’t pardon Combs, Trump stated, “I’d say so.”
The music govt, in the meantime, is at the moment in a nine-person room in a big unit that homes 200 folks, Engelmayer stated.
Combs has restarted “Free Sport with Diddy,” an entrepreneurial class to assist different inmates develop into entrepreneurs, worth their self-worth and develop into productive residents, Engelmayer stated. Combs ran this system whereas he was on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, he stated.
Efforts to achieve a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons during the last a number of days have been unsuccessful because of the authorities shutdown.
Dennis Romero contributed.
