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Essex Sheriff lowers hiring age for correctional officers from 21 to 19 to address staffing shortage
WFXT via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Essex County Sheriff’s Department is lowering its hiring age for correctional officers from 21...
Three convicted in brutal Essex County jail beating that left man 'permanently impaired'
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA jury convicted three men Wednesday on charges related to a brutal attack on a fellow detainee in...
Essex County corrections officer says she was unfairly linked to inmate's death
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAn Essex County corrections officer says she was targeted as part of a bogus investigation after the death of an inmate, which she said had nothing to do with her. Idesha Howard filed a lawsuit ...
ICE moved 65 detained immigrants from Orange County jail to Mississippi and Buffalo
Times Herald-Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMore than half of the immigration detainees being held in the Orange County Correctional Facility...
Montclair murderer James Ray III found dead in jail
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJames Ray III, the attorney who was convicted in May of murdering his girlfriend Angela Bledsoe in their Upper Montclair home in 2018, died Sunday after...
Escaped prisoners: When has it happened in New Jersey?
Courier News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoDanelo Cavalcante, the convicted murderer who broke out of a Pennsylvania prison, was captured after...
After an international manhunt, a NJ man never received a sentence for killing girlfriend
App.com | Asbury Park Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn October 2018, Angela Bledsoe dropped her daughter at school not knowing it was the last time they...
Two Mass. inmates charged with attacking correctional officers
WFXT via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo Massachusetts inmates have been indicted on charges for their role in attacking two correctional...
Reuse plan for closed upstate prisons expected this month
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 10—OGDENSBURG — Sometime this month, the Prison Redevelopment Commission, tasked by Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul with coming up with a plan to reuse the now shuttered Ogdensburg Correctional ...
Son of slain New Jersey imam arrested on gun charge
NBC News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe son of an imam who was fatally shot outside his mosque in Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested on a gun violation charge, Essex County prosecutors...