N.J. prison nurse with autism was told inmates are ‘all drug users’ and to give them pills they wanted

N.J. prison nurse with autism was told inmates are ‘all drug users’ and to give them pills they wanted

Savannah Davenport started work at Rutgers University Correctional Healthcare in mid-December 2024 as a registered nurse. She told the company, which provides healthcare for the state prison system, that she has autism and post-traumatic stress disorder.Not a month into her role at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for women in Hunterdon County, Davenport said nursing supervisors and corrections sergeants pressured her to dole out drugs to in…