Inmate takes the state to court; trial set for challenge to solitary confinement

... come this July. By any measure, Alford belongs in prison. Known on the streets as "Teflon," Alford, who grew up in Newark, was sentenced in January 1996 for the shooting of 20-year-old Jamarl Abney in Elizabeth over a borrowed gun. The victim's body ...

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