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Sean Combs's Bureau of Prisons projected release from Fort Dix is now March 2, 2028.
Page Six reported Oct. 8, 2026, that Bureau of Prisons records it reviewed now list Sean Combs's projected release from FCI Fort Dix as March 2, 2028. The date those records had listed was Jan. 21, 2028. A projected release date is an administrative calculation. It is not a resentencing.
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A Bureau of Prisons projected release date is a custody calendar. It is not a new sentence, not a court-ordered cut, and not a ruling on the appeal. Page Six reported Thursday that the Fort Dix date moved from Jan. 21, 2028, to March 2, 2028. The 50-month judgment on the two prostitution-transportation counts is still the judgment.
Page Six reported that Bureau of Prisons records it reviewed now list March 2, 2028, as Sean "Diddy" Combs's projected release from FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey. The same records had listed Jan. 21, 2028. E! and the Daily Mail reported the same March 2 date from those records. A projected date can move when the Bureau recalculates credits or custody. Movement on that screen is not a new jury finding and not a resentencing.
Page Six tied the later date to reporting that followed an NBC News account of Combs's conditions at Fort Dix. That account, as Page Six described it, said he had people cooking and cleaning for him and giving him massages, that he had a contraband cellphone, and that he was accused of having liquor and of buying antidepressant drugs inside. Page Six wrote that he was reportedly thrown back into solitary confinement after that account. A representative for Combs told Page Six that media scrutiny has reached the point "where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news," and that "the only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence within the rules and he patiently awaits the court's decision on his appeal." A Bureau of Prisons representative told Page Six the agency does not comment on inmates' conditions, citing privacy, safety, and security. Those statements are a response to the reporting. They are not a court order changing the 50-month sentence.
Combs was convicted in 2025 on two counts of transporting people for prostitution under the Mann Act and was sentenced to 50 months. He was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking. That judgment is already entered. The March 2, 2028, date is the Bureau of Prisons projection of when he leaves Fort Dix. It is not a decision on the appeal his representative said he is waiting on. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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