Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

James Pruszinski

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2023

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Major discipline · 2023^[1]

Suspended 20 days

Rank as reported: Sgt
Sustained charge(s): Violation of a rule, regulation, policy or procedure
Separated while IA pending: No

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

The Dept Of Corrections suspended Sgt James Pruszinski for 20 days in 2023 for violation of a rule, regulation, policy or procedure. The record states Pruszinski created a false notification of an employee being banned from grounds for a co-worker, bearing the Assistant Commissioner's signature, which resulted in many phone calls to Senior Staff and an employee being sent home.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Created a false notification of employee banned from grounds for a co-worker with Assistant Commissioner's signature on it resulting in many phone calls to Senior Staff and an employee being sent home

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $125,972
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 31 years, 11 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 1933. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 216123, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩