Senior Corrections Officer Henderson Shanaya was both terminated and suspended by the Department of Corrections in 2021. The record states Shanaya communicated with and facilitated gambling and other financial transactions with inmates and falsified a report. The agency did not provide the sustained charges for this record.
No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows a termination; a terminated officer would not have an active PFRS/SPRS record at this agency, which is one reason no match may exist here. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Other general possibilities include insufficient vesting, a role not covered by PFRS or SPRS, a deferred or vested status not reflected in a current snapshot, or a data-matching limitation. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Henderson Shanaya's major discipline record?
Senior Corrections Officer Henderson Shanaya was both terminated and suspended by the Department of Corrections in 2021. The record states Shanaya communicated with and facilitated gambling and other financial transactions with inmates and falsified a report. The agency did not provide the sustained charges for this record.
What is Henderson Shanaya's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Henderson Shanaya has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Henderson Shanaya's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of Henderson Shanaya's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2021.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Henderson Shanaya 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 Henderson Shanaya individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2718. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]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/. ↩