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WHYY By The Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. (NJ Spotlight) New Jersey prosecutors have filed charges against three correctional police officers for beating female prisoners the night of Jan. 11 at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. Officials said the late-night attacks at the prison in Hunterdon County left the victims with scratches, concussions, and at least one orbital fracture. According to Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, corrections officers had organized into “extraction teams” to remove prisoners from their cells. Per state policy, prisoners are supposed to be given the chance to leave their cells freely, and if they don’t, corrections officers are only permitted to use as much force as is necessary to remove them. That was not what happened, Grewal said during a Thursday afternoon virtual press conference to announce the charges. ....
News AG Grewal Announces Charges Against Three Correctional Police Officers in Ongoing Investigation of Inmate Assaults at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility By Insider NJ | February 4, 2021, 1:58 pm | in News AG Grewal Announces Charges Against Three Correctional Police Officers in Ongoing Investigation of Inmate Assaults at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today announced criminal charges against three suspended correctional police officers for their alleged roles in an incident in which inmates were assaulted and seriously injured at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in the early morning of Jan. 12, 2021. The charges were filed in an ongoing investigation by the Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) and the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office, conducted with the assistance of the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) Specia ....