Inside the Brooklyn federal jail where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is locked up: violence, squalor and deaths

Fighting to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs out of jail after his sex trafficking arrest, the music mogul’s lawyers highlighted a litany of horrors at the Brooklyn federal lockup where he was headed: horrific conditions, rampant violence and multiple deaths.

Combs, 54, was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday — a place that’s been described as “hell on earth” and an “ongoing tragedy” — after pleading not guilty in a case that accuses him of physically and sexually abusing women for more than a decade.

The facility, the only federal jail in New York City, has been plagued by problems since it opened in the 1990s. In recent years, its conditions have been so stark that some judges have refused to send people there. It has also been home to a number of high-profile inmates, including R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell and Michael Cohen.

It is a far cry from the $1,500-a-night Manhattan hotel Combs booked in anticipation that he’d be freed on bail, to say nothing of the $48 million Miami Beach mansion that his lawyers sought to put up as collateral for his release.

Here are some important things to know about the jail:

What is the Metropolitan Detention Center?

The federal Bureau of Prisons opened facility, known as MDC Brooklyn, as a federal jail in the early 1990s.

It’s used mainly for post-arrest detention for people awaiting trial in federal courts in Manhattan or Brooklyn who either haven’t been granted bail or are otherwise ineligible for release. Other inmates are there to serve short sentences following convictions.

The facility, which is located near the New York Harbor waterfront in an industrial area of the Sunset Park neighborhood, has about 1,200 detainees, down from more than 1,600 in January. It