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NJ to pay $21M for assaults at women s prison, federal oversight coming
Trenton Bureau
Federal monitors will likely oversee New Jersey s troubled women s prison under an agreement reached with investigators who had found rampant sexual abuse at the facility, the state s corrections chief told lawmakers on Thursday a day after announcing a $21 million settlement connected to the prison.
Federal oversight is part of a Department of Corrections consent decree a type of settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, which issued a scathing report about abuse within Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in April 2020, Commissioner Marcus O. Hicks said. Hicks said the agreement has not yet been formally approved but likely will be within weeks, when more details could be provided.