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Michael Horton

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2022

Suspended 10 days2022 · as reported

Senior Correctional Police Officer Michael Horton was suspended for 10 days by the Dept Of Corrections in 2022 for sleeping while on duty and neglect of duty. A review of video surveillance over a four month period showed that Horton was asleep while on duty on one or more occasions and failed to complete required duties.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2022[1]

Suspended 10 days
Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
Sleeping while on duty. .
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Review of video surveillance over a four month period revealed SCPO Michael Horton was asleep while on duty on one or more occasions and failed to complete required duties.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.
  • Adalberto Duarte · Department Of Corrections · 2022

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): Sleeping while on duty. Neglect of duty.

    same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Patrick Ferrea · Department Of Corrections · 2022

    Suspended 20 days

    Sustained charge(s): 1. Neglect of duty, loafing, idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks which would not result in danger to persons or

    same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Peter Korczak · Department Of Corrections · 2022

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): Sleeping while on duty. Neglect of duty.

    same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Paul Jankin · Department Of Corrections · 2022

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): Sleeping while on duty. Neglect of duty.

    same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Melanie Cuenca · Department Of Corrections · 2022

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): Sleeping while on duty. Neglect of duty.

    same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

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.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance
$4,132.95
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living)
$4,132.95
Final salary basis
$99,191
Retired
May 2023
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
20 years

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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Michael Horton's major discipline record?

Senior Correctional Police Officer Michael Horton was suspended for 10 days by the Dept Of Corrections in 2022 for sleeping while on duty and neglect of duty. A review of video surveillance over a four month period showed that Horton was asleep while on duty on one or more occasions and failed to complete required duties.

What is Michael Horton's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?

Michael Horton has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Michael Horton's pension on record?

Michael Horton's reported monthly pension allowance is $4,132.95, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Horton has 20 years of reported service.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Michael Horton 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 Michael Horton individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2339. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  2. [2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 337776 (member 44311351), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/.
  3. [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/.