Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Alvaro Castro

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 45 days

Rank as reported: Correctional Police Lieutenant
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Casues (6) a public employee (12) HRB 84-17, as amended B9 - Incompetence or C11 - an employee D7 - Violation of administrative procedures and/or regulations involving safety and security E1 - Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

On 11/16/24, Correctional Police Lieutenant Alvaro Castro responded to an emergency code at East Jersey State Prison where two incarcerated persons were fighting. At the infirmary, one of the incarcerated persons reported that the other had tried to rape him. Castro failed to report or document this Prison Rape Elimination Act allegation. He signed a settlement agreement on 2/5/25 for a 45-day suspension from the Department of Corrections.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 11/16/24, Correctional Police Lieutenant (CPL) Alvaro Castro responded to an emergency code incident at East Jersey State Prison wherein two incarcerated persons were fighting. CPL Castro reported to the infirmary where one of the incarcerated persons reported that the other tried to rape him. CPL Castro failed to report or document this Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) allegation. CPL Castro signed a settlement agreement on 2/5/25 for a 45-day suspension.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $144,836
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 27 years, 4 months

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 575. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 214307, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩