Social Justice

Advocates want resentencing hearings for those who committed crimes as 18-20-year-olds, citing incomplete brain development.

Prison staff showed "deliberate indifference" in refusing to give a disabled incarcerated man his cane for 10 days, a judge said.

Previously, parolees couldn’t get public defenders and were forced to rely on pro-bono representation who may not have had proper experience.

Citizen watchdogs who use the Open Public Records Act to hold public officials accountable say efforts to water down the law should concern everyone.

A federal judge has declared a N.J. law banning immigrant detention contracts unconstitutional. The state vowed to appeal.

People incarcerated at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton have been fighting unsuccessfully to get laptop computers.

Eight of the state's House members and both its senators asked federal authorities to pull their support from a suit to extend immigrant detention.

Officials claimed immunity for the 2010 suicide of an Ocean County Jail inmate. But the N.J. Supreme Court affirmed a negligence finding.

Lawmakers aim to double the time hospitals can hold people involuntarily committed for psychiatric care. Critics say it's the wrong approach.

Some provisions of the law, like providing equal pay for temporary workers doing the same work as full-time employees, go into effect Aug. 5.

A new advocacy group grading lawmakers on their support of legislation it supports gave just 8% of the Legislature’s 120 members an A.

Lawyers say nearly two dozen current and former state troopers allege they are victims of discrimination.

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