NJ Department of Corrections

This is the first segment of a series examining the reentry of New Jersey prisoners into mainstream society upon release, and the services in place to help reduce the number of individuals who re-offend and return to prison.

Officials said an executive with a drug treatment company hired by the state was smuggling drugs into prison.

A former inmate held in solitary for 9 and a half months says she felt hopeless and humiliated

Newark resident Justice Rountree, who's spent at least five years total in isolation while serving a 23-year prison sentence, said the accommodations are torturous at best.

According to The Sentencing Project, the national average of female imprisonment was 57 per 100,000 women.

The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate potential civil rights violations at a New Jersey women's prison where eight employees have been charged.

TRENTON — A soldier who was booted from the military after he was accused of sexually harassing a female soldier also has lost his job as a corrections officer in New Jersey.
Donju Frazier was fired after the department learned about the sexual misconduct charges more than a year after they had…

You may be surprised to learn some of the titles that inmates are forbidden to read.

Part of the three-day training helps officers identify when someone may be in withdrawal or using a substance.

Authorities have charged another corrections officer at the state women’s prison with sexually assaulting inmates.