Senior Correctional Police Officer Joseph Gigante of Garden State Correctional Facility was on an unauthorized leave of absence beginning 6/20/24. The Department of Corrections sent letters on 8/22/24 and 12/23/24 requesting a physician's certificate, a letter of resignation, or proof of a retirement application, with a response required by 1/3/25. Gigante did not provide any documentation and did not return to work. He was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a resignation not in good standing, effective 6/18/25.
(a) General Causes (12) N.J.A.C. 4A:2-6.2(B) Resignation not in Good Standing - Any employee who is absent from duty for five or more consecutive business days without the approval of his or her supervisor shall be considered to have abandoned her or her position and shall be recorded as a resignation not in good standing. Approval of the absence should not be unreasonably denied. HRB 84-17
as amended A2b - Abandonment of job as a result of absence from work as scheduled without permission for five consecutive work days.
Separated while IA pending
Yes
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Garden State Correctional Facility’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Joseph Gigante was on an unauthorized leave of absence since 6/20/24. SCPO Gigante was sent numerous letters on 8/22/24 and 12/23/24 requesting either a certificate from his treating physician indicating whether or not he was able to return to work, a letter of resignation from his position within the New Jersey Department of Corrections, or proof of an Application for Retirement. The last letter sent indicated a response was required by 1/3/25. As of 1/3/25, SCPO Gigante had not sent in any of the required documentation and has yet to return to work. SCPO Gigante was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a resignation not in good standing effective on 6/18/25.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Joseph Gigante's major discipline record?
Senior Correctional Police Officer Joseph Gigante of Garden State Correctional Facility was on an unauthorized leave of absence beginning 6/20/24. The Department of Corrections sent letters on 8/22/24 and 12/23/24 requesting a physician's certificate, a letter of resignation, or proof of a retirement application, with a response required by 1/3/25. Gigante did not provide any documentation and did not return to work. He was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a resignation not in good standing, effective 6/18/25.
What is Joseph Gigante's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Joseph Gigante has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Joseph Gigante 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 Joseph Gigante individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 623. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]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/. ↩