Diddy and Luigi Mangione face rules for Christmas in NYC jail

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Dec 25, 2024

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NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs and Luigi Mangione spent Christmas Day inside the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where one report online said cornish hen and green beans were on the menu.

However, a Daily News source familiar with the MDC says that culinary option is unlikely.

According to People, Mangioni, who’d complained of serious back pain prior to his arrest for allegedly gunning down insurance CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown earlier this month, awoke on a 1-2 inch thick mattress Wednesday.

A prison consultant familiar with MDC reportedly said whether the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate spent the holiday in isolation or with other inmates depends on which section he’s calling home.

Other inmates in the MDC include Combs, who has been incarcerated since September on charges including conspiracy and sex trafficking. Lawyers for the 55-year-old “I Need a Girl” rapper have argued that being kept in the notoriously uncomfortable detention facility makes it hard for their client to participate in his criminal defense.

They asked in September for Combs to be transferred from the MDC special housing unit where he’s detained to a facility in New Jersey.

Inmates are typically allowed one-hour visits from family members on Christmas Day, according to People. The prison consultant they spoke to said defendants are “allowed to hug” visitors, but must sit facing them rather than next to them.

MDC has housed numerous high-profile inmates including singer R. Kelly and cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.

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