The alleged abuse that left one woman inmate with a concussion and another in a wheelchair earlier this year happened inside New Jersey s only prison for women on a unit named Restorative Housing.
Advocates for inmates say that unit at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Union Township is not restorative, and, in practice, is the very sort of isolated confinement that was supposed to have been limited under a state law that went into effect Aug. 1.
Now those advocates and inmates are raising questions about compliance amid renewed scrutiny of how well New Jersey oversees its prisons.
“It certainly appears as if every change has been cosmetic, said Bonnie Kerness, director of the prison watch program of the American Friends Service Committee.
Legionella Bacteria Located in Water Supply Where Inmate Died at Northern State Prison By rlsmetro on
NJ State Corrections officials stopped short with conclusively linking the death of an inmate who died at a prison in NJ to water discovered with the potentially deadly Legionnaires disease.
According to a statement released to RLS Media by NJ Corrections officials, Legionella bacterium naturally found in freshwater has been found in the water sample of building six at Northern State Prison in Newark.
Officials said the NJ Department of Corrections has been working with the Department of Health to address this issue.
According to NJ Corrections officials, 19 inmates housed in the affected unit were immediately moved out of an abundance of caution.
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N.J. man brutally beaten by correctional officers, left in own feces, lawsuit alleges. He died days later.
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
Darrell Smith was allegedly beaten by correctional officers in 2019 at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center. A lawsuit alleges he died from his injuries days later after not receiving medical care.
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“You are gonna die up in here,” his sister said one of the officers told him.
Over the next few days, McNair didn’t hear from her brother. It was odd, she said, because they typically spoke five or six times a week.
Later she would find out why. Darrell Smith was in near comatose state after he was allegedly attacked twice by a group of correctional officers in “gang-style” assaults at the facility, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in late January.