The NJ Reentry Corp., headed up by former Gov. Jim McGreevey, has launched an innovative partnership to help provide clinically required psychiatric and addiction treatment services to those veterans with an "other than honorable" discharge.
For decades, men and women coming out of prison in New Jersey have found it almost impossible to rejoin society in a productive way because they have not been able to find employment.
The League of Women Voters and the New Jersey Reentry Corp. will jointly undertake a campaign to register all former New Jersey prisoners after they complete their sentences.
Expungement of criminal records advanced easily, but a vote on switching to a civil fine for possession was shelved, revived, then advanced without discussion.
Gov. Phil Murphy's 54 percent job approval tops the peak of each of New Jersey's past two elected Democratic governors, as measured by the Quinnipiac Poll.