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Tag: Matt Boxer

Murphy stands by Kuhn amid concerns over Hicks ties, promises national search for permanent corrections head

June 9, 2021   3:15 pm
Gov. Phil Murphy stood by the acting Corrections Commissioner Victoria Kuhn amid questions about her close ties to former Commissioner Marcus Hicks, who resigned Tuesday after an independent report found lapses in oversight of the state’s only women’s prison. “Listen,...
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Murphy to close Edna Mahan after independent report finds numerous breaches

June 7, 2021   10:43 amJune 7, 2021   3:39 pm
New Jersey’s only women’s prison will be shut down following the completion of an independent report into violent January cell extractions, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday. “After reading the report and its recommendations, I have decided that the only path...
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Addiego again calls for Hicks to resign, be removed

May 11, 2021   6:06 pm
State Sen. Dawn Addiego (D-Evesham) again called for Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks to step down or be removed from office Tuesday. “My Senate colleagues and I have been clear since news broke of the January 11th attack at the Edna Mahan Correctional...
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Three months later, still no timeline for Boxer probe

April 26, 2021   3:26 pm
There’s still no timeline for the completion of former State Comptroller Matt Boxer’s investigation nearly three months after Gov. Phil Murphy announced the independent probe into abuses at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility. “Nothing new on the Boxer question,” the...
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Stanfield urges lawmakers to remove Hicks after latest charges in prison scandal

March 18, 2021   5:15 pm
Assemblywoman Jean Stanfield (R-Westampton) renewed her call for the impeachment of Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks after the state filed charges against four more guards over abuses at the state’s only women’s prison. “The women at Edna Mahan don’t have any...
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Four more charged over Edna Mahan abuses

March 18, 2021   3:21 pm
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced charges against four more officials at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility Thursday, bringing the total number charged over beatings and other abuses at the state’s only women’s prison to eight. The investigation, Grewal said, remains...
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Hicks committee appearance doesn’t mean Boxer report is coming, Murphy says

March 17, 2021   3:29 pmMarch 18, 2021   1:17 am
Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks’ upcoming testimony before a joint hearing of the Assembly Judiciary and Women and Children Committees isn’t an indication of forthcoming results from an independent investigation into abuses at the state’s only women’s prison, Gov. Phil Murphy...
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