essex county

Five-year-old Fanta Sangare was struck crossing the street with her father and younger sister, who were also injured.

Residents are still being asked to boil their water, and communities are giving out bottled water.

After one inmate's death at the Essex County Correctional Facility and the vicious beating of another, officials vow a review of operations.

The jail became a target of anti-ICE activists, who complained that detainees were given poor medical care and inedible food, and faced assaults from officers.

After Ernest Francois, a Haitian immigrant, appeared in stories in Gothamist and WNYC, corrections officers allegedly went after him.

“If they can’t take care of us like they’re supposed to, do something else—send me to another jail, or give me my freedom and I can go myself to the hospital.”

He had just closed the his wife's passenger side door and was approaching the driver's side.

Don't talk out of turn if you work for the DOT.