Death rate in New Jersey prisons has climbed, state watchdog finds

Death rate in New Jersey prisons has climbed, state watchdog finds

Forty-three percent of 336 people who died in New Jersey state prisons between 2018 and 2024 were housed at South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton. (Photo by Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor)One in seven people who died in New Jersey’s state prisons since 2018 died of “unnatural causes” including overdoses, suicides, homicides, and accidents, a state watchdog found in a new report. Investigators from the Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson fo…