Authorities have launched an “interagency operation” at the New York federal prison where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held

NEW YORK — On Monday, investigators from federal agencies launched an “interagency operation” at a troubled detention center in New York City, where Sean “Diddy” Combs is conducted

Investigators from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s office of inspector general and other law enforcement agencies arrived at the Brooklyn detention center, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement to The Associated Press.

The law enforcement operation was “designed to meet our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our staff and inmates at MDC Brooklyn,” the agency said. Prison officials declined to provide specific details of the operation Monday morning.

Prison faces increasing scrutiny due to poor conditionsrampant violence and numerous deaths, and there was a push from the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons to solve problems and bring the culprits to justice.

last month, The Federal Prosecutor’s Office brought charges against nine prisoners in connection with a series of attacks from April to August at the Metropolitan Detention Center, the only federal prison in New York. The allegations detail serious safety and security issues at the prison, including allegations after two inmates were stabbed to death and another was impaled in the spine with a makeshift ice pick. An employee of the correctional service was also charged with shooting at a car during an unauthorized high-speed chase.

Earlier this month, the inmate was charged with a murder-for-hire conspiracy that led to the death of a 28-year-old woman outside a New York nightclub last December. Prosecutors say the inmate used a contraband cell phone to orchestrate the plot from behind bars while awaiting sentencing for staging another shooting years ago.

The criminal charges offered a window into the violence and dysfunction that plagues the prison, which holds about 1,200 people, including Combs and Sam Bankman-Friedthe founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The total was down from more than 1,600 in January.

In a statement Monday, the Bureau of Prisons said its operation in Brooklyn was planned in advance and “there was no active threat.”

The agency said it would not release additional details about what exactly investigators were doing until the operation is complete “to ensure the safety and security of all personnel inside the facility and the integrity of this operation.”

The facility, located in an industrial area on the Brooklyn waterfront, is used primarily to hold people after arrest awaiting trial in federal courts in Manhattan or Brooklyn. Other prisoners are serving short terms after being convicted.

Those held at the Brooklyn jail have long complained of rampant violence, appalling conditions, severe understaffing and widespread drug and other contraband, some of which were facilitated by staff. At the same time, they say they were often locked up and not allowed to leave their cells for appointments, phone calls, showers or exercise.