Newly released video shows alleged abuse at a soon-to-be shuttered New Jersey correctional facility
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Newly released video obtained by CNN shows correctional officers allegedly abusing inmates at a soon-to-be shuttered women's correctional facility in New Jersey.
The edited footage shows correctional officers extracting inmates from their cells, physically restraining inmates, punching inmates, and deploying pepper spray into cells with closed doors. The footage was first made public through open records requests made by the Associated Press and other parties. Gov. Phil Murphy announced in June that he was closing the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCF), which was New Jersey's only women's prison, after an independent report he commissioned detailed the allegations of abuse against inmates.
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