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Union: Jail was a "time bomb"
By The Times
Published: 03/21/2007

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, NJ - D pod, the wing at the Mercer County Correction Center where 20 Bloods gangsters called the shots Monday during an intense standoff with corrections officers, was "a time bomb waiting to explode," a union official charged yesterday.

Officers who work the 120-prisoner unit saw it and were documenting the rising power of the inmates and sending reports to their superiors. The union then told the county administration about it, Joseph Tucker, president of the corrections officers union, said Tuesday. Read more.

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