Friendly Fire: Biden’s climate agenda, the vaccine fiasco, and the Edna Mahan crisis
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
Posted Jan 30, 2021
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. Let’s start with the horrifying reports of mass beatings and sexual assault at New Jersey’s only prison for women, the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility. Thirty guards and other staffers have been suspended, the governor ordered an outside investigation, and dozens of legislators, including
, have called for Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks My question: Why is the governor sticking with him and defending him?
Lopez On Announcement of Independent Investigation Into Abuse Allegations at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility January 27, 2021, 4:38 pm | in
Lopez On Announcement of Independent Investigation Into Abuse Allegations at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility
(TRENTON) – In response to the announcement that former State Comptroller Matt Boxer will lead an independent investigation into allegations of abuse brought forward by three women incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility on January 11, Assemblywoman Yvonne Lopez (D-Middlesex) released the following statement:
“I appreciate Governor Murphy’s responsiveness to the allegations of brutal assault against three inmates on January 11 at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.
“From Mr. Boxer’s reputation as a follower of the facts, I trust that his investigation will be conducted in the most comprehensive and expeditious way possible. I urge Mr. Boxer to look
31 Guards Suspended at a Womenâs Prison Plagued by Sexual Violence
Inmates reported being beaten while handcuffed at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey, the stateâs only prison for women.
A yearslong pattern of abuse has emerged at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, N.J.Credit.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Jan. 28, 2021
For Trimeka Rollinsâs daughter, who is 24 and transgender, New Jerseyâs only womenâs prison was supposed to be a haven.
She had been shuffled from one menâs prison to another, facing abuse at both, her mother said, before finally being transferred in November to the stateâs only lockup for women, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.