Nick Mucci, 30, sits at a table at South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton. He is serving an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty in September 2024 to causing or risking widespread damage and unlawful possession of an assault firearm. Dave Hernandez | For NJ Advance
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This story is part of Project Extreme, a yearlong examination into the rise of extremism in New Jersey and its permeation into everyday life. The project is supported in part by a grant from The John Farmer Memorial Journalism Fund.
Read the first part here: https://projects.nj.com/extreme/
The razor wire runs like menacing ivy through a long cyclone fence.
Imposing concrete walls rise just beyond it, punctuated by a few thin slits for windows. Officers look down on it all from behind tinted glass in a soaring guard tower looming over the 84-acre complex.
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Spencer Kent is an investigative political reporter for NJ.com and The Star-Ledger. He reported on the COVID-19 pandemic with stories and investigations into the virus’ spread, its impact on New Jersey residents and the toll on front line workers, families of victims and survivors. He won a Toner Prize for Project Extreme, his project investigating political extremism in New Jersey. He was a Livingston Award finalist for his reporting on a South Jersey man’s recovery after contracting a rare and deadly flesh-eating disease that left him a quadruple amputee. He has also won several state journalism awards. Spencer is a Rutgers University graduate and fellow at The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
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