The case dates to 2021, when about 20 officers on an overnight shift forcibly removed a handful of women from their cells at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor)
A state judge has thrown out a criminal indictment against prison guards and administrators accused in the brutal 2021 beatdown of women incarcerated at the troubled Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, a decision the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office immediately vowed to appeal.
In a sharp rebuke Thursday, Superior Court Judge Christopher J. Garrenger found numerous deficiencies in how prosecutors instructed the two state grand juries that indicted more than a dozen correctional officers for misconduct and related offenses in September 2022 and superseded that indictment in November 2023…