Orlando Mercado, Steven Roberts Jr., and Maton Wilkins — all employed by the New Jersey Department of Corrections — were ...

They may lower your mortality risk—and even counteract the effects of being sedentary.

The state Department of Correction is lowering the minimum age requirement to become an officer from 21 to 19 in hopes of ...

Visitation at theEddie Warrior Correctional Center and theJess Dunn Correctional Center has been cancelled today, May ...

John Scippa, Gov. Kelly Ayotte's interim pick to lead the state's Department of Corrections won quick approval by the ...

Officers hired under the age of 21 won’t be assigned to posts or duties that require a firearm but must be eligible to have a ...

In June 2025, the new album Bending the Bars — produced by the prison abolitionist group Community Hotline for Incarcerated ...

A settlement was reached between the Department of Correction and former and current inmates who filed a lawsuit in ...

Being expelled or suspended multiple times and being sent to an alternative school for children with behavioral problems were ...

Gov. Kelly Ayotte said Wednesday that John Scippa, who has a long background in law enforcement, is the right person to lead ...

Nearly half of those fired during the illegal statewide correctional officers strike earlier this year have applied to ...

The policy was implemented to expand recruitment across the department and attract younger candidates for careers in public ...