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Gavin Woolson

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 15 days
Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s)
(a) General Causes (12) HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, 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)

Senior Correctional Police Officer Gavin Woolson called out sick and refused mandatory overtime at New Jersey State Prison on multiple dates between 4/29/25 and 6/18/25 without sufficient sick leave time to support the absences. The Department of Corrections deemed this chronic or excessive absenteeism. Woolson signed a Last Chance settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 9/8/2025.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 4/29/25, 4/30/25, 5/1/25, 5/5/25, 5/10/25, 5/17/25, 5/27/25, 5/28/25, 5/30/25, 5/31/25, 6/7/25, 6/13/25, 6/17/25, 6/18/25, New Jersey State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Gavin Woolson called out sick and refused to work mandatory overtime. SCPO Collins did not have sufficient sick leave time to support the absences. This was deemed . SCPO Woolson signed a Last Chance settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 9/8/2025.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

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Base salary (pension basis)
$83,448
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
5 years, 7 months

How to read this

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Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 771. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213986, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/.