Two inmates were fatally stabbed this summer at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center, where Sean Combs is awaiting trial in his sex-trafficking case.
The U.S. Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies on Monday morning conducted a sweep of a dangerous federal prison in Brooklyn where two detainees were fatally stabbed this summer.
Members of the department’s Office of the Inspector General led the operation at the long-troubled facility, the Metropolitan Detention Center, where five inmates were charged with murder last month in connection with the killings.
Donald Murphy, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which oversees the facility, said in a statement that “the operation was preplanned and there is no active threat” at the prison, where around 1,200 people are held, including Sean Combs, known as Diddy, and Sam Bankman-Fried.
Mr. Murphy did not provide additional details on the operation, but said the bureau had been involved in the planning and that the action was “designed to achieve our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our employees and the incarcerated individuals housed at M.D.C. Brooklyn.”
On Monday afternoon, there was little evidence outside the detention center that a sweep had taken place. Several officers from the F.B.I. and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration walked in and out of the prison. Officers in fatigues from a K9 unit also stood near the entrance. Nearby, an F.B.I. agent appeared to be patrolling the block.
The sweep was part of continuing efforts to address persistent complaints about the roughly 30-year-old lockup on the waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood. Reports of sexual assaults and inhumane conditions have prompted vehement criticism from judges, activists and detainees’ families.
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