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New Jersey Supreme Court Forces County to Cough up Settlement Documents With Prisoner Raped By Jail Guard Who Snitched on Fellow Guards
Loaded on Sept. 30, 2022
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2022, page 54
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Guard Misconduct,
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Location:
New Jersey.
by David M. Reutter
On March 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a settlement agreement resolving a disciplinary action against a guard at the Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) qualified as a government record, not a personnel record, and was thus available for public review under the ...
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