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| Witness tampering accusation |
| By The Star-Ledger |
| Published: 03/27/2008 |
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NEW JERSEY - The ACLU, which is suing on behalf of 40 women held in "lock-down conditions" at New Jersey's maximum-security prison, accused the Department of Corrections in court papers today of witness tampering, official misconduct and violations of court rules. The civil rights organization alleged that New Jersey State Prison Assistant Administrator James Drumm offered women prisoners reductions in disciplinary sentences if they wrote positive accounts of their treatment at the Trenton prison. The department then submitted the accounts to the court as evidence even though the women are kept in a unit that is not subject to the lawsuit, according to the ACLU. In addition, the ACLU said that one of them women was beaten by a prison guard after she told the ACLU of the proposition. In a sworn affidavit, the prisoner says that following the beating, Drumm told her, "You're causing problems in my institution," and that she should "stop causing trouble." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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