South Woods State Prison News

A state appellate court has upheld the convictions of two city men on manslaughter charges in connection with the shooting death of a Piscataway teenager following a 2004 car accident on Plainfield Avenue.

A state corrections officer wasn't going to let his wife become yet another victim of a hit-and-run accident after her car was struck at Delsea Drive and Park Avenue Monday evening.

An escapee from a Bridgeton halfway house was one of four people arrested when police here used a LoJack device to track a stolen vehicle.

GLOUCESTER TWP. -- An escaped prisoner was found inside a stolen car at a fast-food restaurant here, according to police.

More than two-dozen inmates from a prisons in the Garden State have been indicted for illegally possessing cell phones in the facilities.

" Thirty-five inmates - " including 25 who are members or associates of criminal street gangs such as the Bloods, Crips or Latin Kings - " were indicted Friday for illegally possessing cell phones in state prisons.

BORDENTOWN -- As Congress considers whether to allow state prisons to install cell phone jamming devices, New Jersey is grappling with ways to stop inmates from running criminal enterprises from behind bars.

Two inmates from South Woods State Prison have been indicted for illegally possessing cell phones in the facility.

Millville police investigating theft of prescription drugs. MILLVILLE * Mystie D. Wildin, 20, of East Main Street, was arrested early Friday at 12th and Main streets on the charge of disorderly conduct.

A Millville couple -- one a corrections officer, the other a nurse at a doctor's office -- has been charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $7,000 worth of prescription painkillers, police said Thursday.

A state appeals court has reversed a Plainfield man's aggravated sexual assault conviction, but affirmed his convictions on charges of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

New Jersey's Supreme Court has thrown out the search of a city man's apartment that yielded a cache of drugs and weapons during a 2004 sting operation.

Paul Kamienski talks to reporters after he was released after 20 years on prison from the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, N.J., Tuesday, June 16, 2009.

It's been about a year now since the city lost three 10-man inmate labor details from South Woods State Prison to the state's budget crunch.

A newly appointed Board of Education member is contemplating stepping down after other members learned he spent a year in jail on drug charges.

Inside Riverfront State Prison, the central compound was eerily empty and still on Wednesday.

A federal judge on Monday ordered the release of a New Jersey man who has been imprisoned for more than two decades on a double-murder conviction.

The children who gathered in the Robert L. Sharp Auditorium didn't start with any advantages.

Here we go again. It appears the state Department of Corrections could once again consider South Woods State Prison as one of three possible sites to relocate more than 150 convicted and dangerous sex offenders from a North Jersey prison.

A 2009 photo of Paul Kamienski. A former Lavallette man who says he was wrongly convicted of murder 22 years ago is getting a rare chance at freedom after a federal appeals court today overturned an Ocean County jury's verdict.