South Woods State Prison News

The city may receive $2.25 million this year in state Distressed Cities aid, Mayor James Begley said on Wednesday.

The city must raise sewer fees by $25 this year, city business administrator Arch Liston said Tuesday night.

Corrections officers at South Woods State Prison have confiscated more than a dozen cell phones from inmates, according to a report in the Press of Atlantic City.

Convicted wife-killer Jonathan Nyce's bid to have the state Supreme Court hear his appeal for a new trial has been denied.

A South Woods State Prison corrections officer has been charged with attempting to bring drugs into the prison, according to the county prosecutor's office.

A state appellate court has rejected a Scotch Plains man's appeal of his conviction and sentence on a first-degree robbery charge at the Target in Watchung Square Mall.

TRENTON -- A man accused of plotting from behind jail walls to kill his estranged wife should get a new trial because of numerous errors by the judge in his first trial, a state Appellate Court ruled Wednesday.

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.

A state corrections officer wasn't going to let his wife become yet another victim of a hit-and-run accident after her car was struck at Delsea Drive and Park Avenue Monday evening.

An escapee from a Bridgeton halfway house was one of four people arrested when police here used a LoJack device to track a stolen vehicle.

GLOUCESTER TWP. -- An escaped prisoner was found inside a stolen car at a fast-food restaurant here, according to police.

More than two-dozen inmates from a prisons in the Garden State have been indicted for illegally possessing cell phones in the facilities.

" Thirty-five inmates - " including 25 who are members or associates of criminal street gangs such as the Bloods, Crips or Latin Kings - " were indicted Friday for illegally possessing cell phones in state prisons.

BORDENTOWN -- As Congress considers whether to allow state prisons to install cell phone jamming devices, New Jersey is grappling with ways to stop inmates from running criminal enterprises from behind bars.

Two inmates from South Woods State Prison have been indicted for illegally possessing cell phones in the facility.

Millville police investigating theft of prescription drugs. MILLVILLE * Mystie D. Wildin, 20, of East Main Street, was arrested early Friday at 12th and Main streets on the charge of disorderly conduct.

A Millville couple -- one a corrections officer, the other a nurse at a doctor's office -- has been charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $7,000 worth of prescription painkillers, police said Thursday.

A state appeals court has reversed a Plainfield man's aggravated sexual assault conviction, but affirmed his convictions on charges of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

New Jersey's Supreme Court has thrown out the search of a city man's apartment that yielded a cache of drugs and weapons during a 2004 sting operation.

Paul Kamienski talks to reporters after he was released after 20 years on prison from the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, N.J., Tuesday, June 16, 2009.