据知情人士透露,在NBC新闻报道了肖恩·“迪迪”·康布斯(Sean "Diddy" Combs)在监狱内的VIP生活方式后,他已被关入单独监禁。这位声名狼藉的嘻哈大亨于10月抵达新泽西州福特迪克斯联邦监狱,此前他因跨州运送人员进行性交易而被判处50个月监禁。NBC新闻周二报道称,根据对四名曾与康布斯同处一个监区的人的采访,自入狱以来,他每月花费数千美元,将高端生活方式带入这座低安全级别的监狱。
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been placed in solitary confinement following an NBC News report on his VIP lifestyle inside prison, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. The disgraced hip hop mogul arrived at the Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey in October after he was sentenced to 50 months behind bars for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters. Since then, he has spent thousands of dollars a month to bring his high-end lifestyle to the low-security prison, NBC News reported Tuesday in a story based on interviews with four men who spent time in the same unit as Combs.
他们表示,康布斯毫不费力地获取了手机和包括轩尼诗在内的优质烈酒等违禁品。他还向几名囚犯支付费用,让他们为他准备特殊餐食,在他使用之前清洁厕所和淋浴区,替他洗衣服、铺床,甚至为他提供中式按摩。其中一名消息人士称:“这不是你在监狱里看到的那种普通破事,这是有钱人的排场。看起来很疯狂,但毕竟他是迪迪。”
They said he had no trouble acquiring contraband items such as cellphones and premium liquor, including Hennessy. He also pays several inmates who cook special meals for him, clean the toilet and shower areas before he uses them, do his laundry, make his bed and even give him Chinese-style massages. “This is not some normal s--- you see in jail. This is some rich s---,” one of the sources said. “It looks crazy, but again, it’s Diddy.”
NBC新闻还获取了监狱内部的照片和视频,其中包括康布斯似乎在使用违禁手机的画面。据该消息人士称,在该报道发布后,康布斯被从宿舍式住所移出,安置在特殊监区,即通常所说的单独监禁或SHU。联邦监狱局发言人既未证实也未否认康布斯被转移一事。该发言人表示:“出于隐私、安全和安保原因,我们不评论任何在押人员的监禁条件,包括住所分配,或特定人员是否涉及指控、调查或处罚。”
NBC News also obtained photos and videos inside the prison, which includes footage of Combs appearing to use a contraband cellphone. After the report was published, Combs was removed from his dormitory-style quarters and placed in a special housing unit, better known as solitary confinement or the SHU, according to the source. A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny that Combs was moved. “For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including quarters assignment or whether a particular individual is the subject of allegations, investigations, or sanctions,” the spokesperson said.
TMZ率先报道了这位坏男孩唱片公司创始人被移入单独监禁的消息。专家表示,当囚犯成为调查对象时,联邦监狱通常会将其转移至特殊监区。
TMZ was first to report that the Bad Boy Records founder was moved to solitary. Federal prisons often transfer inmates to the special housing unit when they are the subjects of an investigation, experts say.
“我们在收集证据时会把人关进特殊住房单元(SHU),”20世纪90年代末曾在迪克斯堡(Fort Dix)工作过的联邦监狱管理局退休特别调查员维托·马拉维利亚(Vito Maraviglia)说。马拉维利亚表示,这座新泽西州的监狱在联邦监狱系统中被称为最舒适的监狱之一。它拥有比其他设施更难监控的分区居住区,这使得囚犯更容易藏匿和使用手机等违禁物品。
“We’d put people in the SHU while we were gathering evidence,” said Vito Maraviglia, a retired special investigator for the Bureau of Prisons who worked at Fort Dix in the late 1990s. Maraviglia said the New Jersey prison is known as one of the cushiest in the federal prison system. It has segmented housing areas that are more difficult to monitor than at other facilities, making it easier for inmates to hide and use contraband items like cellphones.
“像他这样的大人物,又有那么多钱,我很惊讶他们会把他送到迪克斯堡这样地方,”马拉维利亚说。据两名曾在迪克斯堡服刑的人士透露,被关进SHU的囚犯每天至少有23小时与另一个人锁在一个单间里。消息人士称,囚发允许带一两本书和一个发条收音机,他们必须穿橙色连体衣,而不是常规的卡其色制服或灰色运动裤和衬衫。
“A high-profile guy like that, with all that money, I’m surprised they put him at a place like Fort Dix,” Maraviglia said. Inmates placed in the SHU are locked in a cell with one other person for at least 23 hours a day, according to two men who spent time at Fort Dix. Inmates are allowed a book or two and a wind-up radio, the sources said, and they must wear an orange jumpsuit instead of the regular khaki uniform or grey sweatpants and shirts.
饭菜用托盘送达,但对小卖部的访问受到限制,他们每周只允许洗几天澡。消息人士称,除此之外,他们必须在水槽里洗漱。“那里面很糟糕,”其中一位消息人士说。这并不是库姆斯(Combs)第一次在迪克斯堡被单独监禁。去年夏天,他在与另一名囚犯打架后被关进特殊住房单元。据美国全国广播公司新闻频道(NBC News)周二报道,他后来被踢出了监狱的药物治疗项目,但继续花钱让囚犯为他提供各种服务。
Meals are delivered in trays but commissary access is restricted, and they are permitted to shower only a few days a week. The sources said they must otherwise wash up in a sink. “It’s nasty down there,” one of the sources said. It isn’t Combs’ first time in solitary confinement at Fort Dix. Last summer, he was placed in the special housing unit after he got into a fight with another inmate. He was later kicked out of a drug treatment program at the prison but continued paying inmates to do a range of services for him, NBC News reported Tuesday.
这篇报道引发了各方人士的回应,其中包括库姆斯的长期死敌50 Cent以及知名律师格洛丽亚·奥尔雷德(Gloria Allred),她代表了一名起诉库姆斯的女性,该女性指控库姆斯在20多年前强奸了她。(库姆斯否认了这些指控,案件仍在审理中。)“针对先生的这些严重指控……”奥尔雷德在一份声明中表示:“库姆斯强烈呼吁立即展开联邦调查并采取适当的联邦行动,包括如果在合理疑点之外证实了其在狱中拥有和使用手机的指控,则应予以起诉。”
The story prompted responses from people as varied as Combs’ longtime nemesis 50 Cent and the prominent attorney Gloria Allred, who represents a woman suing him for allegedly raping her more than 20 years ago. (Combs has denied the allegations, and the case is ongoing.) “These serious allegations against Mr. Combs cry out for an immediate federal investigation and appropriate federal action including a prosecution if the allegations of having and using a cell phone while incarcerated can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt,” Allred said in a statement.
库姆斯去年的审判核心是他组织的名为“狂欢派对”(freak offs)的吸毒淫乱活动。这些活动涉及男性性工作者和他的前女友们——其中包括歌手卡西(Cassie),她曾对库姆斯提起诉讼,指控其多年来对其进行身体和性虐待。(该案已达成和解,库姆斯否认有任何不当行为。)审判以部分裁决告终,纽约陪审团裁定他被控的更严重的性交易和敲诈勒索罪名不成立,原本这些罪名可能让他面临终身监禁。
Combs’ trial last year centered on drug-fueled orgies he organized called “freak offs.”They involved male sex workers and his former girlfriends – including the singer Cassie – who filed a lawsuit against Combs alleging years of physical and sexual abuse. (The case was settled, with Combs denying any wrongdoing.) The trial ended in a split verdict, with a New York jury finding him not guilty on the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put him in prison for life.