Press Releases : Inmate

Attorney General’s Office Investigating Death of Northern State Prison Inmate

The Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) is investigating the death in custody of an inmate, who had been incarcerated at Northern State Prison in Newark, following an encounter with correctional police officers on December 3, 2024.

AG Platkin Announces Indictment of Six Correctional Police Officers Stemming from Aggravated Assault of Inmate at Youth Correctional Facility in Chesterfield

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced a state grand jury has voted to file charges against six correctional police officers in connection with the 2020 assault of an inmate at the New Jersey Department of Corrections’ (DOC) Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Burlington County.

Correctional Police Officer Arrested on Charges That He Sexually Assaulted an Inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women

For Immediate Release: October 13, 2021 Office of The Attorney General- Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney GeneralOffice of Public Integrity and Accountability- Thomas J. Eicher, Executive Director For Further Information: Media Inquiries-Peter...

Acting AG Bruck Announces Indictment of Inmate and His Sister for Allegedly Conspiring to Smuggle Drugs and Cell Phones into Northern State Prison

For Immediate Release: October 5, 2021 Office of The Attorney General- Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney GeneralOffice of Public Integrity and Accountability- Thomas J. Eicher, Executive Director For Further Information: Media Inquiries-Peter AseltineOAGpress@njoag.gov...
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