Month: July 2021

N.J. prison officers know they work a tough job, yet ‘we’re always the bad guys in the public’s view’

The liquid hit her straight in the right eye. On a Monday afternoon in January, after an officer in New Jersey’s only women’s prison searched a cell, a prisoner appeared to use a bottle to squirt something at the officer’s face, according to a new state report. It might have been milk. It might have