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Lawmakers question Commissioner Angel Quiros as prison deaths, staff suicides and mental health demands strain the department’s $757 million budget

Splashed with bodily fluids and forced into double shifts, N.J. corrections officers say unsafe conditions and lack of support are driving many out of the job

COs describe how mandatory overtime, staffing shortages and lack of support are eroding morale

Some officers call the appointment a blow to morale, while others say firsthand experience could drive meaningful change

A separate jury convicted former CO Alex Banta, 30, of similar charges in April

Matthew Eaton on Dr. Phil: ‘I was shoplifting. I don’t deny that at all.’

The findings reflect a trend in recent decades when Maine prisons and jails increasingly house mentally ill inmates who cannot find care in psychiatric facilities

Officials are seeking a 10-year prison sentence for James Theodore Highhouse

The 17-year-old inmate allegedly punched the officer in the face, then proceeded to “pile drive” him into the floor, after which the inmate jumped on him and repeatedly banged the officer’s head onto the floor

Prisons chief Donald Stolworthy wrote the contracts contribute to “many of the ills within the system”