Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Michael Thomas

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 10 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (12) HRB 84-17, as amended E1 - Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

On February 11, February 19 and March 27, 2025, South Woods State Prison Senior Correctional Police Officer Michael Thomas filled out partially completed shift release forms, the Department of Corrections reported. Thomas had three early releases within a six-month period, which violated department rules. He signed a settlement agreement for a 10-day suspension on June 2, 2025.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 2/11/25, 2/19/25 and 3/27/25, South Woods State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Michael Thomas filled out partially completed shift release forms. SCPO Thomas had three early releases within a six-month period which violated the New Jersey Department of Corrections rules and regulations. SCPO Thomas signed a settlement agreement for 10-day suspension on 6/2/25.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $110,139
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 23 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 743. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 216231, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩