Male or female? NJ proposes new way to imprison trans inmates
New Jersey has seen its policy for housing trans inmates change, while closure of the scandal-ridden women's prison has moved slowly.
Department of Corrections
NJDOC: State prison officers must work 7 days a week into 2022, due to COVID
All vacation and other paid leave was canceled for state prison guards through at least Monday, citing a pandemic staff shortage. A union president said staff mental health is in grave danger.
Inmates and Volunteer Groups are helping clean NJ highways
Prison inmates and volunteers in New Jersey are helping the Department of Transportation's operation crews clean and spruce things up along our highways and roadways.
WATCH: Off-duty Correctional Officer catches a bridge jumper
Corrections Officer Faustino Saucedo Spadea's #BlueFriday honoree for the week.
NJ prisoners are getting the COVID-19 vaccine before the public
NJ healthcare workers still are first priority, as the state hammers out its next groups eligible amid a slow arrival of vaccine doses.
It’s official: Pandemic law will let up to 3,000 NJ inmates out early in 2020
The legislation signed by Governor Murphy is the first of its kind in the nation, according to ACLU-NJ.
COVID-19 spreads among NJ jail, prison staff and inmates
Hudson, Bergen and Morris County jails, as well as Northern State Prison in Newark, are seeing more coronavirus cases.
Former Corrections Officer heads to prison for dealing child porn
A former corrections officer from Lacey Township has been sentenced to seven years in prison for distributing child porn images and videos.