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Devonte Artis

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 45 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a)(6) a Public Employee. (a)(12) . C8: Falsification: Intentional misstatement of material fact in connection with work, employment application, attendance, or in any record, report, investigation or other proceeding. D4:Improper or unauthorized contact with an inmate - undue familiarity with inmates, parolees, their families, or friends.
Separated while IA pending: No

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

The Department of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Devonte Artis for 45 days in 2024. An internal affairs investigation found that Artis failed to notify Northern State Prison about his personal relationship with an incarcerated person housed in the restricted housing unit where he worked on five occasions, and that he worked as an escort in that unit 98 times while the person was there. Investigators found he made contradicting statements. Artis signed a settlement agreement on November 7, 2024.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

An Internal Affairs Investigation determined that Officer Artis failed to notify Northern State Prison about his personal relationship to an Incarcerated Person who was housed in the Restricted Housing Unit that Officer Artis worked in on five different occasions. Additionally, Officer Artis worked in that housing unit as an escort 98 different times while the Incarcerated Person was housed there. During the investigation, Officer Artis made several contradicting statements in an attempt to mislead investigators. Officer Artis signed a settlement agreement on this matter on November 7, 2024.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $85,089
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 5 years, 8 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 1321. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213052, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩