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New Jersey Guard Acquitted in Sex Scandal

Loaded on Nov. 1, 2020 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News November, 2020, page 34
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault. Location: New Jersey.

by David M. Reutter

A New Jersey prison guard was acquitted on charges of official misconduct and conspiracy to commit sexual assault. It is the second acquittal for guard Brian Y. Ambroise, who worked at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, New Jersey’s only women’s prison.

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