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Emea Cherry

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

Suspended 45 days2024 · as reported

The Department of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Emea Cherry for 45 days in 2024. On May 10, 2024, while confiscating an incarcerated person's TV, Cherry blocked the person's path on a staircase and the person made contact with her. Later that day, Cherry left the Local Control Point with the TV, shouted expletives at the person, threatened to hit him, and then intentionally threw the TV and broke it. Cherry signed a settlement agreement on July 9, 2024.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2024[1]

Suspended 45 days
Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • (a)(6) a Public Employee. (a)(12) . C11: an employee. C12: Continual use of obscene language. C14: Willful damage to state or property or the property of other employees
  • residents
  • clients or inmates. E1: Violation of a rule
  • regulation
  • policy
  • procedure
  • order
  • or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On May 10, 2024 Officer Cherry was attempting to confiscate an Incarcerated Person's TV. The Incarcerated Person refused Officer Cherry's orders and tried to walk up the stairs past the officer instead of downstairs as he had been told. Officer Cherry blocked his path and the Incarcerated Person made contact with Officer Cherry. Later that day, the Incarcerated Person was standing in front of the Local Control Point and Officer Cherry went out of the Local Control Point with the Incarcerated Person's TV in hand and began to should expletives at him and threatened to hit him herself. Officer Cherry then intentionally threw the TV and broke it. Officer Cherry signed a settlement agreement on this matter on July 9, 2024.

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Other officers at Department Of Corrections

433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$92,924
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
7 years, 10 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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Emea Cherry's major discipline record?

The Department of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Emea Cherry for 45 days in 2024. On May 10, 2024, while confiscating an incarcerated person's TV, Cherry blocked the person's path on a staircase and the person made contact with her. Later that day, Cherry left the Local Control Point with the TV, shouted expletives at the person, threatened to hit him, and then intentionally threw the TV and broke it. Cherry signed a settlement agreement on July 9, 2024.

What is Emea Cherry's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?

Emea Cherry has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Emea Cherry's base salary on record?

Emea Cherry's reported base salary is $92,924, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Emea Cherry has 7 years, 10 months of reported service.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Emea Cherry worked for?

Department Of Corrections reported 4,741 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Emea Cherry individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1339. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213119, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8641. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩