The New York prison is home to Sean “Diddy” Combs, the target of a “multi-agency operation,” FBI agents say

NEW YORK – The New York City prison where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held was the target of a multi-agency operation Monday, federal prison officials said.

The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn is currently houses Combs To Sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Other high-profile inmates, out R. Kelly To Sam Bankman Friedhave taken place there over the years.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons told CBS News in a statement that the operation “is designed to achieve our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our employees and the incarcerated individuals housed at MDC Brooklyn.”

The statement went on to say that there is no active threat at the facility.

The office worked with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General and other law enforcement agencies in the search.

The Complaint History of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn

The operation comes at a time when MDC Brooklyn is under increasing scrutiny for deaths, violence and disastrous conditions. The Bureau of Prisons and the Justice Department are pushing to resolve the problems and hold perpetrators accountable.

Last month, nine inmates were charged over a series of attacks at the troubled prison. Federal prosecutors raised serious safety concerns, including the killing of two inmates and the shooting of a correctional officer at a car during an unauthorized chase.

MDC Brooklyn is the only federal prison in the city since MCC New York – where Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide — Closed in 2021. The waterfront industrial complex is home to 1,200 people, mostly those awaiting federal trial in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Previously, inmates at MDC Brooklyn won a $10 million class-action lawsuit over the icy conditions during an eight-day power outage in 2019.

Kelly sued the prison Wrongly placed him on suicide watch after his sentencing will take place in 2022and Bankman-Fried's lawyer said he survived on bread, water and peanut butter after prison When he was there last year, he failed to offer vegan food.

Yes Rule too stayed at MDC Brooklyn for a short time for weapons possession, and the Rev. Al Sharpton went on hunger strike while serving a 90-day prison sentence there in 2001 for protesting the U.S. Navy's bombing of Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.