Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has celebrated sharing a prison with deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro as the musician enters facility in New York City for a short sentence
The rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has celebrated sharing a prison with the deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The musician, real name Daniel Hernandez, 29, reported to the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday.
Hernandez’s entrance into the MDC comes after he admitted assaulting man and possessing drugs last year in a gang-related case.
In December, he was sentenced to serve three months in federal custody after being hit by a 45 day sentence in 2024 when he broke the terms of his supervised release.
Posting about his entrance into the MDC, which is also the location of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Hernandez claimed he would play basketball with his cellmates whilst in prison.
On Instagram he wrote: “About to have the best basketball team the prison has ever seen.” The singer has also previously recalled that, on one occasion, he shared a cell with Sean “Diddy” Combs and the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
This is the second time Hernandez has been sentenced to prison for violating his probation in just under a year. He will join the deposed Venezuelan president days after the USA launched a raid on the country to capture Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
As well as Hernandez, the MDC has also had within its walls the likes of Sam Bankman-Fried, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo”.
The MDC is located inside Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighbourhood and is used to hold prisoners with pending cases in the USA’s district court for New York’s eastern district. Furthermore, people serving brief sentences also spend time there, reports the Guardian.
As to the current state of the prison, a recent fact sheet produced by the Federal Bureau of Prisons claimed conditions in the facility had improved.
The fact sheet read: “Since January 2024, there has been a substantial decrease in violence, limits on the inmates’ scheduled times out of their cells, and attempted introductions of contraband at MDC Brooklyn. In short, MDC Brooklyn is safe for the inmates and staff.”
Despite this, the facility has previously been described as “hell on earth” with two inmates killed and several more injured in 2024 alone, reports the Mirror.
Source: Mirror
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