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Inspectors Urge New Jersey to Demolish Old, “Inhumane” Prison
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2025, page 11
The New Jersey State Prison is the oldest operating prison in the country, with some of its buildings constructed nearly 200 years ago. Many prisoners at the facility’s West Compound are jammed in cells measuring as little as 28 square feet, with a low ceiling and only enough floor …
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