Senior Correctional Police Officer Joshua Hand was terminated by the Dept Of Corrections. On February 27, 2024, Hand entered into a plea agreement with the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Hand pleaded guilty to willfully depriving a person of a right protected by the Constitution. Specifically, Hand failed to intervene when inmates at Bayside State Prison were subjected to cruel and unusual punishment resulting in bodily injury, in violation of 18 USC 242.
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Synopsis as reported by the agency
On February 27, 2024 Officer Hand entered into a plea agreement with the United States Attorney General for the District of New Jersey and the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. Officer Hand plead guilty to willfully depriving a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Specifically, the Officer failed to intervene when inmates at Bayside State Prison were subjected to cruel and unusual punishment resulting in bodily injury, in violation of 18 USC § 242.
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Other officers at Department Of Corrections
433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
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 Joshua Hand's major discipline record?
Senior Correctional Police Officer Joshua Hand was terminated by the Dept Of Corrections. On February 27, 2024, Hand entered into a plea agreement with the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Hand pleaded guilty to willfully depriving a person of a right protected by the Constitution. Specifically, Hand failed to intervene when inmates at Bayside State Prison were subjected to cruel and unusual punishment resulting in bodily injury, in violation of 18 USC 242.
What is Joshua Hand's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Joshua Hand has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Joshua Hand's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of Joshua Hand's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2024.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Joshua Hand 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 Joshua Hand individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1404. 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/. ↩