This story contains descriptions of self-harm. The New Jersey Department of Corrections tracks violence against its own staff the way other agencies track potholes or snow days: with annual targets.

A prison drug smuggling operation has led to the arrest of a corrections officer from New Jersey.

As ex-Sen. Bob Menendez and businessmen Fred Daibes and Wael Hana get ready to check in, we take a closer look at NJ's prison system.

Forty-three percent of 336 people who died in New Jersey state prisons between 2018 and 2024 were housed at South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton. (Photo by Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor) One in ...

Hundreds of people died inside New Jersey state prisons over the past seven years, many from heart disease, cancer and COVID-19, according to newly released data that the Department of Corrections had ...

Lakewood Township, NJ – A Lakewood man who shared child sexual abuse material online was sentenced Friday to a decade in state prison, closing a high-tech investigation that traced disturbing uploads ...