Revamped 'COVID credit' plan to release inmates early advances
Scaled back in scope and with new notification measures, a plan to grant early prison releases to thousands of state inmates was OK'd by an Assembly panel.
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As 47th inmate dies, Assembly hearing looks at COVID in prisons
Corrections commissioner doesn't testify at joint committee hearing. Universal testing shows 12% of staff and inmates have coronavirus..
Corrections officer gave contraband to NJ inmate, prosecutor says
She is suspended from duty at Bergen County jail after her arrest on Friday, Sept. 13.
NJ prison sex abuse complaints rise by 50% in one year
The state's prisons chief says more time is needed to change system's sex abuse culture.
If anyone deserves overtime pay it's corrections officers
Corrections officers are NOT paid enough for what they do.
A new idea for NJ: Giving Narcan to released prisoners
A separate bill would require all New Jersey high schools to keep a supply of opioid antidotes on hand.
Study: New Jersey prison population shrinks 5 percent
A new federal Justice Department study shows New Jersey's prison population declined by about 5 percent from 2014 to 2015.
Christie axes bill that would've banned solitary confinement
Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Monday rejected a bill that would have prohibited solitary confinement in state prisons.
NJ prison guard charged with raping female inmate
A 32-year-old corrections officer has been suspended after being charged with sexually assaulting an inmate at the state women's prison.
US to states: Make it easier for ex-prisoners to obtains IDs
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is urging the nation's governors to make it easier for convicted felons to obtain state-issued identification after they get out of prison, part of a broader plan being announced Monday to help smooth the path for state and federal inmates who are preparing to re-…