Major discipline · 2025[1]
Terminated- Rank as reported
- Senior Correctional Police Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- (a) General Causes (6) a public employee (12) HRB 84-17, as amended C8- Falsification: Intentional misstatement of material fact in connection with work, employment application, attendance, or in any record, report, investigation or other proceeding. C11- an employee. D6c- Loss or careless control of firearms. 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 2/3/25, the Special Investigations Division met with the Newark Police Department, which had received information that an associate of Senior Correctional Police Officer Danella Jackson of Northern State Prison was selling firearms and that Jackson was introducing contraband into the prison. The investigation found that Jackson had contacted the associate despite stating she was not in communication, and that she stored a firearm in her residence improperly, without a trigger lock. Jackson was served a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action on 11/5/25 for a removal.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 2/3/25, New Jersey Department of Correction’s (NJDOC) Special Investigations Division (SID) met with Newark Police Department regarding an active investigation. The Newark Police Department received confidential information that an associate of Northern State Prison’s (NSP) Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Danella Jackson was selling firearms and Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) out of a storage facility located in Union, NJ. They also had information that SCPO Jackson was involved in the transportation of CDS and illegal firearms and was introducing contraband into the secured perimeter at NSP. The SID investigation revealed that SCPO Jackson had contacted her associate several times, despite her stating she was not in communication with them. SCPO Jackson was also fond not in control of a firearm within her residence, leaving it stored improperly, without the trigger lock activated. A Final Notice of Disciplinary Action was served on 11/5/25 for the Removal of SCPO Jackson.