🚔 A former Northern State Prison officer was sentenced to three years in state prison.
💵 Prosecutors said Christopher Santana took cash and digital payments from inmates to smuggle contraband.
🚬 Officers found vacuum-sealed tobacco bags and three bottles of unidentified liquid hidden beneath his clothing.
NEWARK — A corrections officer will spend his next three years in state prison on the other side of the bars.
Christopher Santana, 33, of Hackensack was sentenced in Superior Court in Essex County on Monday. Santana was forced to forfeit $4,500 in bribes he received and is barred from public employment, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
In August, Santana pleaded guilty to second-degree conspiracy to commit bribery…