The number of acting members of Gov. Phil Murphy’s cabinet was slashed this year, with the State Senate approving four cabinet nominees for full terms. Two other nominees, however, remain unconfirmed, and they’ll likely soon be joined by a third....
Asked today about the prospective closure of the troubled Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, first announced in June 2021, Gov. Phil Murphy said that the process is currently underway to determine how and when the prison will be closed....
The office of the attorney general announced yesterday that 14 correctional officers at the troubled Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women have been indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy, official misconduct, tampering with public records, and aggravated...
Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips (R-Wyckoff) announced this morning that he plans to introduce a resolution to impeach Labor Commissioner Rob Asaro-Angelo, whose department has come under fire from both parties for its handling of unemployment claims during the pandemic. “Enough is...
For Victoria Kuhn to win Senate confirmation as the state corrections commissioner, she must first receive signoff from State Sen. Edward R. Durr (R-Swedesboro), who now has senatorial courtesy over all gubernatorial nominations from Gloucester County. Durr will interview Kuhn...
Eight months after Commissioner of Corrections Marcus Hicks was forced to resign after an independent report found lapses in his management of the state’s only women’s prison, Gov. Phil Murphy has nominated Victoria Kuhn, Hicks’s former chief of staff, to...
Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck announced charges today against one Department of Corrections official and four correctional officers at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, following a brutal assault on prisoners that occurred on January 12. The five officers...