NJ healthcare, prison workers get extension for COVID booster
The state-mandated COVID booster deadline for healthcare workers, which passed Monday, is now April 11. Correctional workers have until May 11.
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Where are NJ’s inmates from? Pretty much every town in the state
A report produced to comply with new state redistricting requirements include details on the hometowns of over 16,000 New Jersey prison inmates.
NJ close to offering ‘COVID credits’ to free thousands of inmates
To further reduce crowding in prisons to make social distancing possible, the Legislature may vote to release thousands of inmates eight months early.
As inmate population drops, NJ plans $59M in prison budget cuts
The Department of Corrections intends to reduce spending on halfway houses by 40% and close its Central Reception Assignment Facility in Trenton.
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.