(NJ Spotlight News)Advocates seek passage of stalled Rehabilitative Release Bill
(NJ Spotlight News)Advocates seek passage of stalled Rehabilitative Release Bill
(NJ Spotlight News)NJ commission also recommends other sentencing reforms
(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)Inmates say they aren’t allowed out of cells for mandatory four hours a day. Advocates want greater oversight
(NJ Spotlight News)The order establishes a clemency advisory board and criteria for expedited consideration of clemency requests


Program was set up early in the pandemic when NJ prisons had high rate of COVID-19-related deaths
NJ Spotlight NewsLt. Gov. Sheila Oliver signs legislation for program which will deliver a range of services, including help finding jobs

Actor Michael K. Williams was among those on hand Friday for the launch of the New Jersey Reentry Ambassador Program, an initiative that’s enlisting the ...

Advocates and lawmakers want the state to study the impact and legacy of slavery in New Jersey and take action in the lame-duck session.

Social justice advocates say a Yale Law School study is the ammunition needed to end isolated confinement by law in New Jersey.