Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

James Mackay

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2022

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Major discipline · 2022^[1]

Suspended 10 days

Rank as reported: Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): ; Negligence; Contributing to escape; Violation of Safety and security regulations; Violation of policy & procedure
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Correctional Police Officer James Mackay was suspended by the Dept Of Corrections in 2022. The record states that Mackay failed to perform a proper bed check, resulting in an inmate escape. An original 30 day suspension for neglect of duty was reduced to a 10 day suspension for record keeping purposes only under a settlement agreement. Sustained charges included neglect of duty, negligence, contributing to escape, and violation of safety and security regulations.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Mackay failed to perform proper bed check resulting in an inmate escape. 30 day suspension, Settlement Agreement to 10 day suspension for Record Keeping Purposes only

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $114,697
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 19 years, 2 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 2347. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 214728, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩