The appeals court panel said the inmate should not have spent more than a year in solitary and that he wasn't properly evaluated for mental health issues.
A lawmaker is sponsoring a measure that calls for corrections officers injured on the job by inmates to get a full salary until worker's compensation payments begin.
It used to be that when gang kingpins were sent to prison in New Jersey they could still run their operations by using a smuggled cell phone to direct many types of criminal activity, however, that is no longer the case thanks to recent practices undertaken by the state Department of Corrections (DOC).