For the second time in a year, staff at MDC Brooklyn — the troubled federal jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is now locked up — largely ignored an inmate’s medical complaints for months as a cancerous tumor grew in his body.
Dwayne Pickett, 29, who’s awaiting sentencing in a gun trafficking case, asked for medical help 17 times between January and August, desperately describing extreme pain in his leg.
He was seen just three times by a nurse practitioner, who made no note of what would turn out to be a growing tumor on his right leg, according to federal court records. Finally, he saw a doctor at the jail on Aug. 7, and was hospitalized a day later…