Dozens suspended at N.J. prison after officers are accused of beating women inmates
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
The Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton in a Nov. 4, 2020 file photo.
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Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with comments from a state lawmaker.
Dozens of staff have been suspended and a criminal investigation is underway at New Jersey’s only women’s prison after officers were accused of severely beating several women inmates earlier this month, according to state and union officials.
Prisoners have told family members and advocates that at least three women at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility were hurt by officers Jan. 11, including one inmate who now has a broken eye socket and a transgender woman beaten so badly she cannot walk and is now in a wheelchair. The family members and advocates have shared letters and other first-hand accounts with NJ Advance
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Laundry workers hung out to dry | Editorial
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
When we salute essential workers, we usually overlook the people who clean the bed sheets, patient gowns, scrubs and other protective equipment for our doctors and caregivers in hospitals and nursing homes.
It’s not a job many of us would choose, but it gets done by people making $11.50 an hour at places like Med-Apparel, a hospital laundry service in a block-long plant on the Arthur Kill in Perth Amboy.
These 120 workers struck last month just to get a 35- to 45-cent hourly increase and to demand compliance to state safety protocols at the massive shop, where 12 of them have fallen ill from COVID and one has died, according to their union.
La ley llega en un momento crucial, pues el viernes vence la ayuda para cerca de 1,4 millones de habitantes de Nueva Jersey que reclamaron los pagos desde el 15.