The Department of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Larry Newsome for 30 days in 2024. On March 14, 2024, an investigation found that Newsome engaged in a physical altercation with another staff member at the New Jersey State Prison, pushing the other officer in the chest with his open right hand and then being pushed back. Custody staff had to separate the two. Newsome signed a settlement agreement on June 28, 2024.
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Synopsis as reported by the agency
On March 14, 2024, an investigation revealed that Officer Newsome engaged in a physical altercation with another staff member at the New Jersey State Prison Facility. Specifically, SCPO Newsome pushed another Officer in the chest with his open right hand, palm facing outward. SCPO Newsome was then pushed in the chest by the other Officer. A verbal altercation also ensued between the two. Custody Staff had to separate SCPO Newsome and the other Officer. Officer Newsome signed a settlement agreement on this matter on June 28, 2024.
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What is a summary of Larry Newsome's major discipline record?
The Department of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Larry Newsome for 30 days in 2024. On March 14, 2024, an investigation found that Newsome engaged in a physical altercation with another staff member at the New Jersey State Prison, pushing the other officer in the chest with his open right hand and then being pushed back. Custody staff had to separate the two. Newsome signed a settlement agreement on June 28, 2024.
What is Larry Newsome's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Larry Newsome 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.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Larry Newsome 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 Larry Newsome individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1354. 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/. ↩