New Jersey State Prison housed the death chamber, and the first death by electrocution occurred on December 11, 1907. In 1999 death row inmate Robert "Mudman" Simon, who was convicted of killing a police officer, died during a fight. The lethal injection chamber at the prison was never used, and the New Jersey Governor repealed the death penalty in December 2007. Therefore, the final execution to take place at the prison was a January 22, 1963 electrocution. The former lethal injection room now serves as an office. New Jersey State Prison The New Jersey State Prison (NJSP), formerly known as Trenton State Prison, is
New Jersey State Police member of the New York-New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force. NJSP is one third of the participants of a Traffic Management Center (TMC) called STMC (Statewide Traffic Management Center) located in Woodbridge, NJ. STMC is also the home to New Jersey Department of Transportation and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The STMC is manned 24/7 and is responsible for the coordination & logistics of statewide resources during major incidents within the State of New Jersey. As of 2007, the demographics of the New Jersey State Police was as follows: The New Jersey State Police, as of July 2007, received a