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

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 ...

Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, convicted last summer on federal corruption charges, is set to begin his prison sentence on June 17. The case, which saw Menendez convicted of bribery, acting as a ...

A Monmouth County judge sentenced Julie Rizzitello, a Brick Township resident and former Wall Township High School teacher, to a decade in state prison after finding she used her position of trust to ...