Diddy Placed on Suicide Watch in Brooklyn Jail After Bail Was Denied Again in Sex Trafficking Case

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Sean “Diddy” Combs remained in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center on Friday and was placed on suicide watch.

Combs was arrested on Monday after being indicted for sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution, charges that could see the hip-hop mogul face a lifetime prison sentence, according to some legal analysts. He pleaded not guilty and was remanded to the New York City prison, where he was denied bail twice.

People Magazine reported exclusively on Friday that Combs was “in shock,” and “his mental state was unclear,” but was placed on suicide watch as a precaution:

According to the U.S Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections, suicide watch is “supervisory precautions taken for suicidal inmates that require frequent observation.”

Metropolitan Detention Center is notorious for being “dangerous and understaffed, with a high number of deaths and suicides,” People wrote.

Combs’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo requested that his client be moved to a different facility in New Jersey’s Essex County, citing the poor conditions at MDC. The judge stated that the decision would fall to the Bureau of Prisons.

The indictment, which was unsealed on Tuesday, detailed the “criminal enterprise” that allegedly took place at the hands of Combs, who apparently used his power and fame to cover up decades of continued abuse of women.