Sean Combs Transferred to Pennsylvania Prison After Contraband Bust

Sean Combs is now at FCI Allenwood Low, a federal prison in Pennsylvania, after the Bureau of Prisons moved him out of FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey on Friday, October 16. The transfer followed weeks of reporting about contraband and paid inmate services inside Fort Dix, and it came days after Combs was treated at a hospital for a head injury. A BOP spokesperson confirmed the move but declined to discuss conditions of confinement or reasons for transfer, citing privacy, safety, and security.

Fort Dix officials had already sanctioned Combs for what they called disruptive conduct, docking him 41 days of good conduct time that he had accumulated during his first year at the facility, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The disciplinary action followed an NBC News report that Combs had access to cellphones, liquor, and other contraband, and that he paid inmates to cook, clean, make his bed, and give him massages. Rolling Stone reported that Combs used a contraband phone to scroll Instagram and view explicit photos from an ex-girlfriend.

Combs, 56, is serving a 50-month sentence for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was convicted in the summer of 2025 and sentenced that October, with five years of supervised release to follow. His release date had already been pushed to March 2, 2028, after the loss of good conduct credit, according to E! News and the Associated Press. His appeal remains pending before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The move to Allenwood Low puts Combs in a facility with roughly 1,000 inmates, compared with about 4,000 at Fort Dix, according to NewsNation. His spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, said the family had not received official confirmation of the transfer and was not in a position to speculate about the reasons. In a separate statement to E! News, a representative said the transfer from one low-security facility to another was "consistent with a decision made with safety and security in mind."

“We can confirm that Sean Combs transferred to FCI Allenwood Low on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not discuss the conditions of confinement for any individual in our custody, including reasons for transfer.”

: Bureau of Prisons spokesperson, via The Hollywood Reporter

Reports of a fight with fellow inmate Christopher Coke, also known as Dudus, were false and did not happen, the BOP said in a statement to multiple outlets. TMZ had reported that Combs was injured in a fight and taken out of Fort Dix for treatment. The BOP's unusual public rebuttal came as Combs was already in the prison's special housing unit, where inmates are locked in cells for at least 23 hours a day, according to former Fort Dix inmates who spoke to NBC News.