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Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2023
Suspended 20 days2023 · as reported
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.
Major discipline · 2023[1]
Suspended 20 daysSynopsis 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
Background: Corrections agencies account for a large share of New Jersey's major police discipline.
Jerome Cochran · Department Of Corrections · 2023
Suspended 15 daysSustained charge(s): Unsatisfactory Attendance
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Michael Cook · Department Of Corrections · 2023
Suspended 15 daysSustained charge(s): Chronic or excessive absenteeism or lateness
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Jonathan Howard · Department Of Corrections · 2023
Suspended 15 daysSustained charge(s): Unsatisfactory Attendance
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Jerome Cochran · Department Of Corrections · 2023
Suspended 15 daysSustained charge(s): Unsatisfactory Attendance
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Brian Mikus · Department Of Corrections · 2023
Suspended 10 daysSustained charge(s): Violation of a rule. Regulation, policy or procedure
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
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Police Transparency NJ, "James Pruszinski, Department Of Corrections," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/james-pruszinski-dept-of-corrections/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
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.
James Pruszinski has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
James Pruszinski's reported base salary is $125,972, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. James Pruszinski has 31 years, 11 months of reported service.
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 James Pruszinski individually.