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1. New Jersey leader of Nine Trey Gangsters gets 7 more years in prison
(N.J./State)

... directing the activities of the gang with the assistance of fellow inmate and Bloods member Tahaij Wells. Allen placed telephone calls from prison to his subordinates in the gang through another defendant, ...

2. Joseph Mastriani pleads not guilty to Essex County jail smuggling charges
(N.J./State)

... ring that delivered contraband items to inmates at the Essex County Jail pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and official misconduct charges during his court appearance Friday, WABC reported. Mastriani, ...

3. Jailhouse smuggling ring busted in Essex County
(N.J./State)

... once before when he and five other corrections officers faced a grand jury in 2005 for their involvement in a staged "boxing match" with a 34-year-old inmate at the facility. None of the officers were ...

4. Prisoner lawsuits rising in N.J. but drop nationally
(N.J./State)

The number of lawsuits filed by New Jersey prisoners is climbing. Most of those suits are drafted and filed by the inmates themselves and many are seen as frivolous. In all, officials say that an inmate ...

5. Give Credit where credit is due
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... of inmate education the education budget has been reduced to less than 2% of the Billion spent on incarceration. There is also recommendations about privatizing these programs. That also makes ...

6. N.J. prison population shrinking while other states struggle
(N.J./State)

... 1998 more than welcomes the recent 14.8 percent decline (2000 to 2009) reported by The Star-Ledger. While New Jersey state prison still remain overcrowded, (last year they held 5,500 more inmates than ...

7. Former corrections officer Glen Adams gets 3 years in prison for smuggling
(N.J./State)

A New Jersey corrections officer has been sentenced to three years in prison for supplying cell phones to an inmate. Glen Adams, 49, of Union, was working as a guard at East Jersey State Prison in Woodbridge ...

8. Prison employee Joy Black arrested for supplying sex and drugs to inmates
(N.J./State)

... and charged with having sex with five inmates and supplying drugs to two of them. Joy R. Black, 32, of Irvington was arrested at the prison on June 30, 2010, and was charged with official misconduct, ...

9. Shared sacrifice not hitting Christie adviser’s business
(N.J./State)

... treatment centers for former inmates is set to rise by $3.1 million. Meanwhile, longtime Christie adviser and political contributor William J. Palatucci is a senior vice-president and general counsel for ...

10. 40 accused of drug dealing in Newark, smuggling at Northern State Prison
(N.J./State)

... Elijah Harris, 35, of Newark, and an inmate, Norman Willie Wade, 45, who allegedly were smuggling drugs and cell phones into the prison to sell to inmates. "We have arrested the alleged leaders and numerous ...

11. Owner of Bruin Computer Trading fined for offering payoff to N.J. state worker
(N.J./State)

... the loading of equipment onto pallets by Department of Corrections inmates and Juvenile Justice Commission residents. One trailer load of pallets formed a lot. Gawroski pleaded guilty in 2008 to an official ...

12. Report: N.J. beaches open 99.8 percent of time
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... more than 58,000 pieces of litter. Through the Clean Shores Program, prison inmates removed 3.75 million pounds of trash and debris from 151 miles of Atlantic and bay shorelines. With the unofficial ...

13. Cuba’s President Raúl Castro meets with Catholic Church
(World/International)

... Church and the Cuban state," according to official sources. The meeting, requested by the Church, went on for over four hours, and touched on topics like conditions of prison inmates and the Ladies ...

14. Washington looking to reform U.S. prison system
(U.S./Nation)

... but 25 percent of the world's prison population. Minorities make up a disproportionately large share of inmates. Black males have a 32 percent chance of serving time in prison at some point in their ...

15. This guy is a genius!
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This is better than indentured servitude! This is even BETTER than slavery!! This guy is a genius!! If inmates had $38,000 - they wouldn't be inmates! Maybe being incarcerated will become a status symbol. ...

16. N.J. mob indictments handed to Lucchese crime family
(N.J./State)

... wagers using password-protected Web sites and a Costa Rican "wire room" where bets were recorded and results tallied. The prison smuggling scheme allegedly involved inmate Edwin B. Spears, 36, of Neptune, ...

17. Passaic County arrests 33 on warrant sweep
(N.J./State)

... Eleven people sought by authorities were already locked up in the Passaic County Jail on unrelated charges, Valdes said. Jail officials check inmates through state and national criminal databases during ...

18. Public vs privatized service
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... does not apply to privatized services. From the standpoint of 'inmates' interred in correctionaal facilities, once the facility is privatized, what happens to them inside the facilities remains unknown ...

19. “Operation Hardhat” takes down 18 N.J. Headbusters, including 8 already in prison
(N.J./State)

... policing methods, including the monitoring of inmates, to aggressively investigate and prosecute members of violent street gangs in New Jersey," Dow said. "We partnered with numerous law enforcement agencies ...

20. Early Release
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... was given to a Washington State prison system. Supposedely the basis of the program is to give the inmate the sense of responsibility for their own actions. Even though credit is given to inmates that ...