SEAN “Diddy” Combs will have an easy time serving the remainder of his sentence at a relaxed college dormitory-style prison, but must undergo rigorous visitation protocols, including strip-searches, an ex-inmate said.
Combs, who is serving a 50-month sentence after being convicted of two prostitution-related offenses, was transferred from the notoriously neglected Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey on Thursday.
The fallen Bad Boy Records producer, 55, got his way after the Federal Bureau of Prisons granted his request to serve out his sentence at the low-security federal prison.
Bill Boyle, a former inmate who spent 14 months at Fort Dix, said if Combs survived the MDC for over a year, the New Jersey lockup is “going to be a breeze for him.”
Boyle described the living situation at Fort Dix as similar to a college or military barracks, “You have 12 men in a cell and it’s not a true cell. It’s basically a dorm,” he told The U.S. Sun.
“You have three sets of bunk beds on one side of the wall, three sets on the other. The door to your cell they don’t lock, so you’re not necessarily really locked in because there’s no bathroom in those cells.
“So, you have to have access to a bathroom. None of the doors lock. The front door locks and they lock you in but that’s the front door to get in and out of there.”
However, despite the lenient housing regulations, Boyle, the founder of Federal Prison Consultants, said the facility’s infrastructure is just as brutal as in the MDC.
“At Fort Dix, there’s three levels, three floors to these units, and you’re in the shower and you’re getting the discarded shower water from the shower above the third floor running down hitting you,” Boyle said.
“That’s disgusting. Then, some days the shower water would come out scolding hot or it would just literally burn your skin.
“Some days it was cold, ice cold like a Mountain Creek. You had a bath but it was very, very hard.
“Some days the water would come out and hit you like a fire hose.
“You couldn’t even stand under it, it was so fast, and other times come out like a trickle like someone was pouring a tiny glass of water on you.”
“So, the daily living conditions are brutal. The food once again horrific. They don’t feed you enough.”
Boyle, who is releasing a book, My Journey Through Hell While I’m Alive, in early 2026 about his experience behind bars, said he was housed in the west compound of the prison, which he heard from other inmates was the best out of the three sections.
“They got the east side, the west side, and the camp. I was in the west, which believe or not, they said was the better of the two because the east, the buildings were even more dilapidated, and I couldn’t imagine that,” he added.
RIGOROUS VISITATION RULES
Combs’ legal team requested that the music mogul be housed at Fort Dix because of the facility’s drug rehabilitation program and to maximize family visitation.
But Boyle said that despite Combs’ superstar status, he’ll have to be strip-searched before and after every visitation.
“That’s probably the hardest part,” Boyle, who was sentenced to 78 months after being convicted of federal mail and wire fraud charges, said of the visitation procedure at Fort Dix.
“Families go through rigorous screening protocol. For Diddy when he goes, he’ll come down, he’ll walk into a little cement block cubicle, and if it’s a cold day he’ll be freezing his nuts off, and you strip naked as the inmate.
“Completely naked. You got to show under your tongue, you got to run your hands through your hair, lift up your ball sack, you got to bend over and cough.
“That’s on the way into the visiting room and then you do the same exact thing on the way out of the visit.
“I hated to put my kids and my family through coming to see me in terms of getting through security because it’s very demoralizing for them as well.
“The visits, they’re very, very, very strict. You can give a hug when they first walk in, a quick peck, but there’s no intimacy because you’re sitting on hard plastic chairs in the visiting room and you’re lined up side by side.”
Boyle added, “You’re not even facing each other. You got to turn your body a little bit.
“So, it’s just rows and rows of plastic chairs, basically if I’m sitting on one chair and my kids sitting at the next chair there’s another inmate sitting next to his loved one.
“So there’s not really a time for real private conversation.
“But if he survived MDC for a little over a year and a half, Fort Dix is going to be a breeze for him, whether it’s the camp or the low, but he’s still somebody worth millions of dollars used to flying private, living in the best places.”
Combs was reportedly assigned laundry duties as his first job in Fort Dix, washing and drying dirty laundry, according to TMZ.
The disgraced hitmaker is scheduled to be released on May 8, 2028, but could be released sooner for good behavior.
Members of Combs’ team have reportedly approached White House officials in the Trump administration about a potential pardon.
President Donald Trump acknowledged the request, telling reporters in the Oval Office in early October, “A lot of people have asked me for pardons.
“I call him Puff Daddy; he has asked me for a pardon.”
DIDDY’S PUNISHMENT
Combs’ sensational eight-week trial concluded over the summer when a 12-person jury acquitted him of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of sex trafficking but convicted him of two prostitution charges.
During the trial, jurors heard excruciating testimony from two of Combs’ ex-girlfriends, including singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, about the years-long abuse they suffered at the hands of the rap heavy-hitter.
Ventura and another woman, identified in court only as Jane, testified about the depraved drug-fueled sex marathons, “freak-offs,” they were allegedly coerced into with male escorts.
At his sentencing, Combs addressed the court for the first time since his legal troubles began in November 2023, begging the judge for mercy in his 12-minute speech.
In his remarks, Combs apologized to Ventura and Jane before turning to his family and telling his mother, Janice, “I failed you as a son and I’m sorry.”
He acknowledged the disturbing hotel surveillance footage of his assault on Ventura and apologized to all victims of domestic violence.
“I know that the disgusting video triggered people. I was sick. Sick from the drugs. I needed help. But I didn’t get the help,” Combs said in a shaky voice.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/15426100/diddys-new-prison-conditions-fort-dix-ex-inmate/