Dozens of protesters gathered to fight the sale of Union County's 1,000-bed jail as local lawmakers warn of the "serious risk ...

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — An inmate gave another prisoner a “piledriver” onto a concrete floor, two correctional officers were taken ...

A 44-year-old Montclair man was sentenced to multiple life sentences for ordering and committing murders and leading an Essex ...

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ -- An inmate recently committed suicide at a prison in Essex County, authorities say. An inmate incarcerated at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark took his own life ...