Katana Yehuda
Appearances
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
The first couple of days are heartbreaking because you're taken completely away from family. There's no interaction with anyone except prisoners or the guards. So you have no idea what to expect as far as going through things with the prisoner or the guards because it can go either way when you first walk through those prison gates.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
So it's really, even for the toughest person in the world, it's scary because you just don't know what to expect. And do you have all your belongings taken away? Everything. I went in with extension braids in my hair. They made me sit in a cell and take every braid out of my hair before I was let into population. I don't think that the MDC is for any human being at all.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
I mean, I'm not saying that no one belongs, you know, you commit a crime, you have to wait to, you know, your trial and everything else. But I don't think that jail is fit for anyone unless they clean up the conditions.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
What makes it worse is the food. Mostly everything is stale food. It's old food that's donated by other people that they wrap up or they cook for you. Mostly everything is full of roaches and the giant cockroaches. You can smell the mold. You can smell the rot. You can smell the jail that it needs. It needs to be rebuilt. It needs help. I don't think anyone should be in that particular jail.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
We never had interaction with high profile prisoners at all, ever.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
Well, in 2019, something went wrong. They had a power outage. They didn't have any water. They didn't have any lights. They didn't have any heat. And the mayor tried to bring over, the city council tried to bring over blankets And the warden wouldn't accept it. My brother called me from a cell phone that was not supposed to be there. And he, you know, he cried.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
He said, listen, I think I'm a dying here. So I panicked. I said, what the hell you mean? You know, you having problems with a prisoner? Do I have to, you know, call a lawyer or, you know, what can I do? He said, no, I'm going to freeze to death. I said, freeze? He said, yeah, we don't have no water. So I called the news station and made a whole big show.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
And I went down there and I had to do something about it, not just for my brother, but for anybody. He was telling me that he thought his roommate was going to die because his feet was turning purple. They didn't give my brother his medication.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
I screamed to the inmates. I said, everybody, please be quiet. And they stopped banging. I said, if you are freezing cold, bang on the windows. It was so loud you could hear it from blocks away. It was heartbreaking, you know, for me to know that, you know, my brother and other people were going through this.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
It was horrible because, you know, my brother's a man's man. So to hear him on the phone trembling like, I don't think I'm going to make it here. Let me tell you what's going on. That was scary for me.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
You know, and at that time, the news was people were going up, picking up stray dogs, taking them off the streets and taking the bums off the trains and off the streets so they wouldn't freeze to death. But yet and still, you would allow these prisoners in that jail to freeze.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
No, there's no programs in that prison to help you. You know, to help you do anything. Like I said, because you're in prison and you're serving time or you're waiting, you know, to go to court or to go to trial or whatever it is, does not mean that you're not a human being. You know, just like what's going on with Diddy. At the end of the day, he still deserves to be treated as a human being.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
You know, he still deserves a fair trial, innocent before proven guilty, whatever happened to that. So how do you keep yourself entertained throughout the day? What do you do? Well, I just read books. I read books and I daydreamed a lot. I mean, at least we got to go get some air on the roof. At least we got to interact with other inmates and, you know, be able to talk.
Diddy On Trial
What’s life like for Diddy in prison?
you know, use the phone, read a book, go to church, you know, because there were little things that they would allow us to do, like have a chapel come in and, you know, pray with us and things. Like literally just to keep, you know, keep my head on straight, I prayed a lot.