Sean 'Diddy' Combs is in rehab behind bars, which could reduce his sentence by 1 year

[ad_1] Sean Combs is taking part in a drug rehabilitation program behind bars that might scale back his sentence by as a lot as a yr, his spokesman Juda Engelmayer mentioned.

The founding father of Dangerous Boy Leisure is dedicated to sobriety, therapeutic and making an attempt to set an instance for others, Engelmayer mentioned.

“Mr. Combs is an energetic participant within the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) and has taken his rehabilitation course of critically from the beginning,” Engelmayer mentioned. “He's absolutely engaged in his work, targeted on development, and dedicated to constructive change.”

A federal inmate locator signifies Combs is predicted to be launched in Might 2028. Finishing the rehab program may imply an earlier launch, although he would nonetheless face 5 years of supervision, in addition to drug testing and psychological well being conferences prescribed below his sentence, which he’s interesting.

Prosecutors had sought a sentence of greater than 11 years. The disgraced music mogul was sentenced Oct. 3 to 50 months in jail following his conviction on two counts of transporting folks for prostitution. He obtained credit score for 14 months of time served earlier than sentencing.

The rehabilitation program is supplied at Federal Correctional Establishment Fort Dix — a low-security federal jail in New Jersey — the place Combs arrived on Oct. thirtieth, Engelmayer mentioned. Combs has been accepted into this system and is working within the chapel library there, the spokesman mentioned.

“He works within the chapel library, the place he describes the setting as heat, respectful, and rewarding," Engelmayer mentioned.

Information of Combs taking part within the rehab program was first reported by the New York Instances.

Combs throughout his sentencing on Oct. 3. Jane Rosenberg / Reuters Throughout trial, ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified that Combs used violence to coerce her into taking part in so-called freak-offs, drug-fueled intercourse events with intercourse staff he employed. Afterward, she testified, she felt "disgusted" and "humiliated."

At Combs' sentencing, U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian mentioned Combs “abused the facility and management with girls you professed to like."

"You abused them bodily, emotionally and psychologically," he mentioned.

Combs apologized to Ventura and one other former girlfriend, describing his actions as "disgusting, shameful and sick."

After his conviction in July, Combs’ authorized crew reached out to President Donald Trump to hunt a pardon, a supply near the protection mentioned in early August.

On Aug. 1, the president mentioned in an interview with Newsmax that he was beforehand “very pleasant” with Combs, however that Combs “was very hostile” when Trump ran for workplace. Requested if he was suggesting he wouldn’t pardon Combs, Trump mentioned, “I'd say so.”

The music govt, in the meantime, is at the moment in a nine-person room in a big unit that homes 200 folks, Engelmayer mentioned.

Combs has restarted "Free Recreation with Diddy," an entrepreneurial class to assist different inmates develop into entrepreneurs, worth their self-worth and develop into productive residents, Engelmayer mentioned. Combs ran this system whereas he was on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, he mentioned.