Senior Corrections Officer Jonathan Cruz received a 10-day suspension from the Department Of Corrections in 2021. According to the record, Cruz refused a CPS order to have inmates mask up. He was not terminated or demoted, and no other sanction or sustained charges were reported.
In 2021, the Department Of Corrections recorded the termination of Senior Corrections Officer Jonathan Cruz. The listed description was a resignation not in good standing. Cruz was not demoted or suspended, and the agency did not report the sustained charges or any other sanction.
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 Jonathan Cruz's major discipline record?
Cruz has 2 sustained major discipline records from Dept Of Corrections, all from 2021. The records include a termination and a suspension.
What is Jonathan Cruz's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Jonathan Cruz has 2 major discipline records at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Jonathan Cruz's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of Jonathan Cruz's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2021.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Jonathan Cruz 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 Jonathan Cruz individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2735. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2741. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]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/. ↩