NEW YORK – Two inmates stabbed to death. Another speared in the spine with a makeshift icepick. A correctional officer charged with shooting at a car during an unauthorized high-speed chase.

Criminal charges unsealed Monday offer a fresh window into violence and dysfunction that has plagued the Brooklyn federal jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried are locked up.

In all, federal prosecutors charged nine inmates in connection with a spate of attacks from April to August at the Metropolitan Detention Center, the only federal jail in New York City. The charges come amid a push by the Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons to fix problems at the jail and hold perpetrators accountable.

Andrew Simpson and Devone Thomas were charged with murder in a federal detention facility for allegedly stabbing inmate Uriel Whyte to death on June 7. Jamaul Aziz, James Bazemore and Alberto Santiago were charged with premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder within a federal detention facility in the July 17 killing of inmate Edwin Cordero. Makeshift weapons were used in both attacks, prosecutors said.

Messages seeking comment were left with lawyers who represented Simpson, Thomas, Aziz, Bazemore and Santiago in their previous cases.

Four other inmates were charged in non-fatal assaults. One was charged with assaulting a federal officer for allegedly punching a correctional officer in the face in August after the officer offered him breakfast. Two others were charged in the icepick attack a few days later.

“Violence will not be tolerated in our federal jails,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement. He said the charges should serve as a “warning to those who would engage in criminal conduct behind bars, and anyone else who facilitates those crimes: your conduct will be exposed, and you will be held accountable.”

Also Monday, a correctional officer assigned to monitor the jail’s perimeter was charged with a civil rights violation for shooting at a BMW sedan with his Bureau of Prisons-issued gun in September 2023 after pursuing the vehicle through the streets of Brooklyn in a government-owned Dodge Caravan. The BMW had three bullet holes in its rear exterior and a person inside was wounded, Peace said.