Why Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is being given a laptop in jail

Originally appeared on E! Online Sean “Diddy” Combs is getting hooked up with a computer as he awaits trial on sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution charges. The rapper — who remains locked up at Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center after being denied bail multiple times — has been issued a laptop on which he can review documents pertaining to his criminal case, according to a court order obtained by E! News. “The MDC is ordered to give Defendant access to the Discovery Laptop seven days per week from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM,” a decree signed by Judge Arun Subramanian Dec. 12 read. “This can be in his unit’s visiting room or in his unit’s VTC room.” Jay-Z, the star rapper and entrepreneur whose real name is Shawn Carter, has responded after he was accused in a lawsuit on Sunday of allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl along with Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000. However, the judge set out that the purpose of the laptop is “not to take or store notes.” “It is the Court’s understanding that the laptop has been pre-loaded with discovery materials,” Subramanian continued, “but does not allow any functionality beyond reviewing those materials.”...