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A former corrections officer has admitted in a guilty plea that he failed to break up two assaults at Bayside State Prison. Joshua Hand, 34, of Millville, pleaded guilty in Camden federal court on Monday to information charging him with depriving inmates of their civil rights, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey. Both assaults took place on the same day in December 2019 in the officers’ quarters of Bayside State Prison in Maurice River Township, Cumberland County. In the first incident, a group of inmates entered the officers’ quarters, blocked the exit door and pinn…

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