Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Jason Sestito

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2020

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Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 60 days

Rank as reported: Senior Corrections Officer
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Senior Corrections Officer Jason Sestito received a 60-day suspension from the Department Of Corrections in 2020. Sestito was recorded smashing an inmate's canteen honeybun and throwing it on the floor, and he falsified a report of the incident.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Recorded smashing an inmate's canteen honeybun and throwing them on the floor. Falsified report of incident.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $5,017.50
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $5,017.50
Final salary basis: $90,315
Retired: June 2023
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 18 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 2976. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 349371 (member 44331356), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩