Combs teaches six-week inmate course ahead of sentencing

Sean Diddy Combs has been teaching a six week business and personal development course to fellow inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while awaiting sentencing on federal convictions, his legal team told the court. The 55 year old music executive and entrepreneur developed a 15 page curriculum for the program, called Free Game With Diddy, and included course materials, inmate testimonials and a positive evaluation from the jail unit counselor in filings submitted to Judge Arun Subramanian ahead of an October 3 sentencing hearing.

According to the materials, the six week class covered business management, entrepreneurship and personal development and was offered to detainees in Combs' dorm, including Spanish speakers who used an interpreter. The submitted outline lists sessions titled Just Do It and Time Waits for No Man, and a module called The Marathon 26.2 that addressed long term commitment and the price of success. Assignments for participants included essays applying lessons from the course to their future goals.

The unit counselor evaluated the program as excellent and gave the course the highest ratings on an assessment included in the filings. Letters...