Broken bones, bloodied inmates: The inside story of a night of violence at N.J.’s women’s prison
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
The attorney general announced charges Thursday against Edna Mahan corrections officer Luis Garcia, Sgt. Amir Bethea and Sgt. Anthony Valvano.
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The officers wore riot gear and carried shields and canisters of pepper spray, according to inmates and prosecutors. They moved from cell to cell in formations of five down the long hallway of a special housing unit at New Jersey’s only women’s prison.
They were there for a series of “cell extractions,” what normally are routine removals of unruly inmates as officers search for contraband.
3 officers charged in horrific assaults at N J women s prison plagued by sexual abuse
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Three corrections officers charged in January attack at N J women s prison
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UNION TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WABC) Prison guards in New Jersey are accused of taking half a dozen female inmates and beating them before stripping one of them and dragging her to a shower and sexually assaulting her.
Three suspended correctional police officers are now charged for their alleged roles in an assault on inmates at a prison for women in New Jersey.
The incident happened at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton in the early morning of January 12, 2021.
One inmate was punched 28 times and pepper-sprayed , New Jersey officials said Thursday. Edna Mahan has a long, ugly history, one that has justifiably attracted scrutiny from county, state, and federal investigators, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said. That s why we must do more than simply figure out what went wrong on January 11. We must hold the responsible parties accountable, and we must fix the systemic failures that made this incident possible. I m committed to using the full resources of