Department profile · Cape May County
Cape May County Correctional Center
Reported as: Cape May County Correctional CenterCorrections
Jurisdiction context
Civil service jurisdiction
Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Cape May County on the New Jersey Civil Service Commission roster.
Read how the process works or the Title 4A glossary. Browse NJCSNavigator’s civil service jurisdiction directory for the full local-jurisdiction roster.
Reflects the NJCSC Appendix A roster as of 2026-07-04. Context only, not legal advice.
Officers named in IA cases, 2024
7[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2024
7[1]
Incidents, 2024
7[1]
Major discipline records
0
All years, 2020-2025
Staffing
Staffing data not available. The FBI's national staffing census (LEE) does not separately track county corrections facilities, sheriff's offices, or other county agencies in New Jersey -- only a single statewide Department of Corrections figure exists in that data. See the methodology for what FBI staffing data does and does not cover.
Military surplus equipment (1033 program)
No 1033 transfers recorded. No surplus-equipment transfers appear for this agency under a high-confidence name match in the Defense Logistics Agency's file as of 2026-06-30. That can mean the agency received nothing through the program, or that a recipient name in the federal file did not confidently match this department. See the methodology for how the match is made, or the statewide 1033 overview for how the program spreads across New Jersey.
Internal affairs investigations by year
counts
| Category | counts |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 |
Complaint mix, 2024
Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 7 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| Neglect of Duty | 3 |
|---|---|
| Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency | 2 |
| not provided | 1 |
| Demeanor | 1 |
Statewide category pages: Neglect of Duty · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Demeanor
Internal disposition
| Sustained | 3 |
|---|---|
| not provided | 3 |
| Exonerated | 1 |
Report card
Grade A: Lowest fifth of peers
On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology
- Combined standing
- 4th percentile of 15 peers
- Confidence
- Medium confidence
- only 1 year(s) with both investigations and officer counts reported
- small agency; per-officer rates swing widely on a handful of cases
Where this agency falls among its peers
The actual spread of discipline severity across Cape May County Correctional Center's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.
Peer group: Corrections, all corrections agencies (n=14)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–1000 | 13 |
| 1000–2000 | 0 |
| 2000–3000 | 1 |
Cape May County Correctional Center: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 4th percentile among Corrections, all corrections agencies (n=14).
How the grade is built
Three components, each a percentile within the peer group. The combined standing is their weighted mean, re-ranked among peers; the grade is the fifth of the peer group it lands in.
IA volumeweight 40%
100.0 investigations per 100 officers (multi-year mean)
Internal affairs investigations per 100 reported officers, averaged over the years where the agency reported both figures.
Discipline severityweight 40%
0.0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 officers, 2020-2025
Major discipline records weighted by sanction (termination 4, demotion 3, suspension 2, other 1) per 100 officers.
Allegation severityweight 20%
2.00 mean severity tier (1 low - 4 critical)
Mean severity tier of IA allegations across 2021-2025, using the published tier map; unknown values excluded.
What this grade can and can't tell you
- The underlying data is self-reported by agencies, one yearly snapshot at a time.
- Allegations are not findings; many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
- There is no arrest or call-volume denominator in this data, so nothing here is a per-capita misconduct rate. A genuinely independent staffing-based rate, sourced from the FBI rather than this grade's own data, appears above when available. It is a different measurement, not a more accurate version of the grade.
- A higher internal affairs volume is ambiguous: it can indicate more misconduct, or a more robust oversight and reporting culture. The grade weighs it anyway, because volume is what the record offers; that choice is published, not hidden.
- The grade is one lens. The records it reads are on this page above.
Major discipline records
No major discipline records appear for this agency in the 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; see the methodology for what this data does and does not cover.
Public records requests
No records-request history is shown for this department. OPRAmachine, an independent site that files and publishes Open Public Records Act requests, has no public body that confidently matches this department, so this site does not assert one. That does not mean nobody has requested records from it. (Checked against a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken 12 July 2026.) See the methodology for how the match is made.
Questions and answers
How many internal affairs investigations did Cape May County Correctional Center report in 2024?
Cape May County Correctional Center reported 7 internal affairs investigations in 2024, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 7 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Cape May County Correctional Center have?
No major discipline records appear for Cape May County Correctional Center in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; discipline is listed only after all appeals conclude.
Sources
- [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 670. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [2]New Jersey county boundaries. New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS). NJ_Counties_3857 (FeatureServer layer 0), https://services2.arcgis.com/XVOqAjTOJ5P6ngMu/arcgis/rest/services/NJ_Counties_3857/FeatureServer/0. 2020 boundary delineation. Retrieved 2026-07-27. Boundaries are generalized for display. This data set is not a survey document and must not be used as such. The polygons do not represent legal boundaries.
- [3]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 670. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [4]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Cape May County Correctional Center row for 2024; row 1 is the header. ↩