Diddy’s Prison Release Timeline Keeps Shrinking. Now, It’s February 2028

Sean Combs is now projected to leave federal prison on February 23, 2028, the earliest date the Bureau of Prisons has put on his file yet. The initial post-sentencing estimate was May 2028, then it slipped to June, then started climbing the other way: April 25, then April 15, and now late February.

He’s serving 50 months at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey after a 2025 jury acquitted him of the racketeering and sex-trafficking charges that could have meant life, and convicted him on two prostitution-related counts under the Mann Act.

What’s moving the number is what he’s doing inside. Combs is enrolled in RDAP, an intensive 500-hour residential drug and alcohol program, and finishing it can shave up to a year off a sentence for eligible non-violent offenders. Add good-conduct credits under the First Step Act and the math keeps tightening.

Guests dressed in white gather with champagne bottles at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Labor Day White Party in the Hamptons, the inaugural event in what became a celebrated annual series, September 4, 1999. Photo by MEGA.

It could move again. His appeal is still pending at the 2nd U.S. Circuit, where judges heard arguments in April 2026 and pressed on whether his sentence was too harsh. No ruling has come down, and a single disciplinary write-up has already pushed his date the wrong way once before.

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