FREEHOLD - A former New Jersey state trooper is heading to prison, after a judge sentenced him Dec. 10 to a seven-year term ...

Forty-three percent of 336 people who died in New Jersey state prisons between 2018 and 2024 were housed at South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton. (Photo by Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor) ...

A former New Jersey prison guard has been sentenced to five years behind bars for assaulting an inmate in 2017, authorities announced Monday. Cortlen Flax, a 37-year-old Woodbury resident, was ...

A New Jersey corrections officer has been charged with sexually assaulting two inmates at the Avenel treatment center, sparking a serious investigation.

Hundreds of people died inside New Jersey state prisons over the past seven years, many from heart disease, cancer and COVID-19, according to newly released data that the Department of Corrections had ...

An inmate serving time for manslaughter has won an appeal over his missing TV, which disappeared during a transfer between New Jersey prisons. Sadot Council, 40, bought a television in May 2023 from ...

For 18 months, Sonia Doe faced humiliating strip searches in front of male guards. Male prisoners exposed themselves to her. She faced sexual harassment, discrimination and physical threats from ...

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Sean “Diddy” Combs’s latest mugshot since being sentenced to 50 months in prison has been released. In the snap, obtained by CBS News and taken at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix in New ...