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Support for impeaching N.J. prison leader grows in wake of alleged beatings of women inmates Updated Feb 13, 2021; Posted Feb 11, 2021 New Jersey Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks in a Jan. 8, 2020, file photo at the Family Guidance Center of Warren County in Washington Township.Steve Novak | For lehighvalleylive.com Facebook Share Twitter Share A growing coalition of lawmakers have announced their support for impeaching the head of New Jersey’s prison system amid a criminal probe into assaults against female inmates by staff at the state’s only women’s prison. A bipartisan group of 10 women in the state Assembly said Thursday they’d support forcing Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks out of a job, which would be the first time in modern history the Legislature impeached a leader in the executive branch. ....
NJ senators want prisons chief gone amid abuse scandal There are growing calls for Gov. Phil Murphy to fire the Department of Corrections commissioner amid a probe of accusations of abuse by corrections staff against inmates at the state s women’s prison. All 25 Senate Democrats have called for Marcus Hicks to immediately resign as DOC commissioner following the suspension of 30 employees at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women along with a new internal investigation stemming from a Jan. 11 incident. Republicans also have called for his removal. “He has demonstrated time and again that he is not up to the task of running the Department of Corrections, a department that holds the responsibility for the custody and care of approximately 20,000 state-sentenced offenders housed across 12 state correctional facilities, county jails and community halfway houses,” the lawmakers said in a Jan. 28 letter to the governor. ....
POLITICO Get the New Jersey Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories Good Monday morning! Today was to be the deadline for weed negotiations, with a quorum forcing Gov. Murphy to take action on the legislation on his desk. But Speaker Coughlin on Friday delayed the quorum, giving the Murphy administration and Legislature more time to quibble over details about how to deal with underage users that continue to delay the implementation of weed legalization, despite the fact that 67 percent of New Jersey voters approved it. ....
Burlington County lawmakers push back against internet data caps Burlington County lawmakers have pushed back against plans to charge residential internet customers a fee for exceeding data limits amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Troy Singleton was one of three state lawmakers last week to introduce a bill in the New Jersey Senate that would prohibit internet service providers from increasing rates during a public health emergency. The bill s introduction comes after Comcast began to roll out its 1.2 terabyte (TB) data plan for Xfinity internet customers in its northeast region, which includes New Jersey, on Jan. 1. The plan establishes a monthly data usage cap of 1.2 TB for its residential internet customers. Customers who exceed the 1.2 TB data cap are charged additional fees, up to an additional $100 per month. ....