New Jersey State Prison News

Richard C. Wyckoff died on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010, at Jeanes Hospital, Philadelphia.

New Jersey State Prison in Trenton in a 2006 aerial photo. When prisoners are released in New Jersey, their punishment is far from over.

As Christmas approaches we welcome the signs of the holiday: homes adorned with multicolored lights, Christmas carols on the radio and wishes of a Merry Christmas from those we meet.

A second Burlington County jury has convicted a Bordentown Township man for sexually assaulting a girl he met through her friendship with his own young sons.

Avram Gottlieb's legal odyssey will continue next month. Gottlieb is appealing his conviction on an armed robbery charge in connection with the March 14, 1995 robbery of the Jeffrey Scott Fine Jewelry Store in Franklin .

Martin Taccetta, a reputed former underboss of the Lucchese crime family's New Jersey faction, has been summoned to a Newark courtroom next week to possibly resolve the charges pending against him in a mob case that has resulted in the convictions of 19 others.

Minutes before Hai Nguyen received a 20-year prison sentence Friday for fatally shooting her son seven years ago, Do Nguyen told Superior Court Judge Paul Armstrong she "would rather have taken that bullet." Hai Nguyen, 33, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Paul Armstrong, sitting in Somerville, for the fatal shooting of Tuan ...

Miguel Castillo, a former New York City Police Officer who was arrested in Rutherford for allegedly burglarizing a suspected drug dealer's home on East Pierrepont Avenue, took a plea deal, today, Dec.

NEWARK, N.J. A New Jersey convicted murderer has won a settlement that allows him to preach during prison services.

Christian group to pay off $10K in strangers' parking tickets BOISE, Idaho - A Christian group will once again camp out in front of City Hall and offer to pay off up to $10,000 dollars in parking tickets for any passers-by. Organizers say the Dec.

Instead of immediately freeing Shakur Carrasquillo from New Jersey State Prison, Superior Court Judge Joseph Falcone, sitting in Passaic County, set a bail for him of $150,000 with various conditions.

A New Jersey prisoner has won a settlement that allows him to preach at services inside the prison.

It's a murder case that just won't die. Marquis Kennon, 46, who is serving a life sentence in New Jersey State Prison in connection with a fatal jewelry store holdup in the township almost 15 years ago, still is pursuing an appeal of the conviction.

At the New Jersey State Prison inmate check-in starts with a seat on the B.O.S.S. chair.

Murderer Thor Frey wants his prison sentence reduced. Oral arguments are scheduled before President Judge John Pursel at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerville, N.J., court officials said Tuesday.

A man sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping, robbing and pistol-whipping a Harding resident could go free under a judge's finding that the Morris County Prosecutor's Office violated a duty to try the suspect within a certain period of time.

A state appellate court has upheld the convictions of two city men on manslaughter charges in connection with the shooting death of a Piscataway teenager following a 2004 car accident on Plainfield Avenue.

Why do so many criminals repeat their offenses? In a landmark study conducted by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, the conclusion emerged that about three fourths of those entering jail have been there before.

Whether the state's key witness will testify against a former Millstone Township man on trial for allegedly hiring him to run over his onetime Red Bank attorney is in question, after the reputed hit man repeatedly refused to answer questions for a judge on Thursday.

Batten doubles Lawless' bail CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE-After it was revealed that his blood alcohol content was .23 when his car crossed over the center line on Route 9 and took the life of an Erma man, Superior Court Judge Raymond Batten doubled the bail on John Lawless, 37, of Philadelphia.