New Jersey State Prison News

It was one of the most notorious contract killings in the history of New Jersey.

A 24-year-old Jersey City man, already serving an 18-year prison term for aggravated manslaughter, will have to serve out that sentence before he begins serving a life sentence handed down this morning in the murder of an Asbury Park pet shop owner.

Jury selection is slated to start today in Morristown in the trial of James Carl Zarate, who was 14 when he allegedly helped his older brother murder and dismember teenage neighbor Jennifer Ann Parks in the basement of their father's home in Randolph.

A Bridgewater man has lost the appeal of his murder conviction for shooting his mother in 1996.

According to county Sheriff Gary Schaffer, four of the top 10 individuals appearing on the Sheriff's "Most Wanted" list have been captured with the latest being captured in Pennsylvania on May 1. Most Wanted No.

The state appellate court has upheld a 60-year prison sentence for a Pittsgrove Township man convicted in connection with the 2002 shooting death of 35-year-old Tina Labriola of Vineland.

A former city resident who served more than two decades in prison for two gruesome murders he did not commit has filed a lawsuit against the city, the county and current and former members of the Plainfield Police Division and Union County Prosecutor's Office.

New Jersey's corrections commissioner is considering whether to ban a book written by 43 inmates from state prisons.

In one New Jersey prison, a published collection of poems and prose penned by prisoners is in a lockup of its own while corrections authorities decide whether it is inflammatory.

James Phillips, one of the four men arrested following a March bank robbery in Franklin Township that ended in a shootout with police, died today from wounds he suffered in the shooting.

Today, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office announced that a 29-year-old Collingswood man pled guilty Monday to robbing three pharmacies of Oxycontin in the fall of 2008.

When Vincent Williams pleaded guilty last year to beating his girlfriend's son with a belt, he got probation, paid a $200 fine and was ordered to take anger-management classes.

Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk reported Monday two sentencings and a plea in five Camden homicides.

Three weeks after Porfirio S. Jimenez was sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years, defense lawyers are in the process of preparing an appeal of the day laborer's conviction for murdering and trying to ...

A 46-year-old man, serving 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting two Sayreville girls after meeting one of them through the Internet, has lost an appeal of his 2005 conviction.

A YouTube video has prompted police Internal Affairs to investigate the conduct of two Philadelphia officers moments after a cop wounded a suspect in West Philadelphia on Jan.

County prosecutors announced today that a Gloucester City man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the 20 counts of burglary charges against him.

A Clementon man faces a life prison term after being convicted Friday of stealing two purses while holding two women at knifepoint in their own home.

A 38-year-old Lindenwold man was sentenced in the 2006 murder of his mother Friday it was announced by the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.

A Plainfield man serving a life sentence on an armed robbery charge may have the chance to withdraw his guilty plea.