NJ Department of Corrections

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 been filed by the military...

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.

Efforts are being ramped up by the NJ Corrections Department to make sure inmates can't get their hands on cell phones.

Some county jails in New Jersey only allow video visits.

A new program to help inmates overcome substance abuse addictions will begin at a refurbished Mid State Correctional facility this spring.