Embattled New Jersey Department of Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks announced the hiring of an outside consulting firm to assist with planned reforms at a Hunterdon County prison where three male guards are charged with misconduct in an attack on female inmates.
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Jersey political insiders: On the left, Julie Roginsky, a career Democratic strategist and TV commentator; on the right, Michael DuHaime, a Republican strategist and public affairs executive.
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, editorial page editor of The Star-Ledger.
Q. At the impeachment trial, Democrats showed videos of the Jan. 6 attack showing how vicious and dangerous it was. But how effectively did they pin it all on President Trump?
Julie: The impeachment managers were incredibly effective in tying Trump to the riots of January 6th. Republican senators who are bending over backwards to exonerate Trump are cowards who are putting their political survival ahead of the US Constitution but also ahead of the well-being of their staff and colleagues, who were in grave danger the moment the president told a rabid crowd to march up Pennsylvania Avenue to “stop the steal” and prom
Last week, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced criminal charges against three suspended correctional police officers for their alleged roles in an incident where inmates were assaulted and seriously injured at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clifton in January.
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Assemblymember Jamel Holley (D-Union) made it formal yesterday: He’s primarying his former running mate, state Sen. Joe Cryan (D-Union).
Holley, who’s Black, put out an announcement video that portrays him in the mold of Martin Luther King, Jr., RFK (Sr.), John Lewis and Barack Obama. It made only glancing references to
the anti-vaccine conspiracy theories he’s spent the last couple years pushing (with some help by RFK Jr.), and none to the false theories he’s promoted about
“This candidacy for State Senate is not about me. It’s about the boy in Elizabeth whose parents came to this country to seek a better life and many of the same services and support I received when I was young,” Holley said in a statement.
Advocates and lawmakers warned state prison officials that a sergeant working at New Jersey s women s prison was known among the inmates as an abuser six months before he was charged in a January attack on women there.
In August, four women lawmakers sent a letter to the Corrections Department legal affairs office asking the state to look into concerns about Sgt. or Lt. Bethea.
Bonnie Kerness, an advocate with the American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch who routinely speaks to inmates, had gotten several phone calls from inmates about Bethea s conduct, the letter says. Groups like prison watch receive many complaints and reports, but this one was specific enough that we wanted to bring it to your attention, reads the letter sent on behalf of Assemblywomen Valerie Vainieri Huttle, D-Bergen, and Yvonne Lopez, D-Middlesex, and Sen. Linda Greenstein, D-Middlesex.