A New Jersey man who beat a woman during a domestic violence incident last year has been sentenced to four years in state ...

A 40-year-old Mexican citizen who had previously been removed from the United States four times has been sentenced to 18 ...

The state has paid 44% more for prisoners’ health care over the last two decades, even as the prison population has fallen by ...

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) One in ...

A New Jersey man in possession of more than 1,000 items of child sexual abuse material has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison. Edward Lynch, 53, of Toms River will be required to serve the ...

This story contains descriptions of self-harm. The New Jersey Department of Corrections tracks violence against its own staff the way other agencies track potholes or snow days: with annual targets.

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 ...

Julie Rizzitello, a Brick Township resident and former Wall Township High School teacher, was sentenced to a decade in state prison after a judge ruled she purposely and knowingly groomed and sexually ...

A Toms River man will spend the next decade behind bars after admitting to distributing thousands of images of child sexual abuse material, ...