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.
Alexander Shalom
NJ Supreme Court asked to alter rules for inmate COVID releases
Nearly seven weeks after an executive order made 3,000 state inmates eligible for temporary home confinement, 337 have been released.
NJ judge releases accused child rapist and lets him go on vacation
Supporters of New Jersey's bail reform law say the system isn't perfect, but it's a dramatic improvement over the old cash bail system.