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Michael Thomas

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

Suspended 10 days2025 · as reported

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.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 10 days
Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
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

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.

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  • Malcolm Austin · Department Of Corrections · 2025

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  • Malcolm Austin · Department Of Corrections · 2025

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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.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

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.

Questions and answers

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

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.

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

Michael Thomas 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.

What is Michael Thomas's base salary on record?

Michael Thomas's reported base salary is $110,139, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Thomas has 23 years of reported service.

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

Sources

  1. [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. [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/. ↩
  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/. ↩