Social Justice

People incarcerated in New Jersey made 11,938 requests for help to the state corrections ombudsperson's office in the past year.

The New Jersey State Police have a backlog of more than 46,000 expungement orders and now faces a lawsuit to compel more timely compliance.

The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate whether Trenton police have a "pattern or practice" of excessive force and illegal stops.

Nurses' demand for minimum nurse-to-patient ratios remains the sticking point in a strike that has stretched more than two months.

Public workers are required by law to live in state, but requiring police or other public workers to live locally remains a source of debate.

Advocates want resentencing hearings for those who committed crimes as 18-20-year-olds, citing incomplete brain development.

Prison staff showed "deliberate indifference" in refusing to give a disabled incarcerated man his cane for 10 days, a judge said.

Previously, parolees couldn’t get public defenders and were forced to rely on pro-bono representation who may not have had proper experience.

Citizen watchdogs who use the Open Public Records Act to hold public officials accountable say efforts to water down the law should concern everyone.

A federal judge has declared a N.J. law banning immigrant detention contracts unconstitutional. The state vowed to appeal.

People incarcerated at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton have been fighting unsuccessfully to get laptop computers.

Eight of the state's House members and both its senators asked federal authorities to pull their support from a suit to extend immigrant detention.

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