New Jersey has been home to many a music legend, from Bon Jovi to Whitney Houston - and now Sean "Diddy" Combs. New records from the Federal Bureau of Prisons show that the 55-year-old hip-hop mogul has been moved to FCI Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison about a two-hour drive from Manhattan. Combs was sentenced in October to 50 months in prison after being convicted in July of federal prostitution-related charges.
While Walter provides history and plenty of politics and policy detail, she does it through individual stories: a doctor who bends the rules as he tries to fight the system, a White middle-class young man who gets treatment in lieu of jail time but then learns that the facility which forces him into hard labor may be even worse, and a Black woman who gets no such option and is sent to jail.
"Sharma, a former leader in the recovery industry, is accused of submitting $149 million in fraudulent insurance claims, along with conducting unnecessary tests and paying illegal kickbacks."