On July 31, 2025, South Woods State Prison Correctional Police Officer Pierre Stokes submitted a resignation letter effective immediately and did not give the required 14 days' notice, the Department of Corrections reported. Stokes was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for resignation not in good standing on August 14, 2025.
N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-6.2 Resignation not in good standing (a) if an employee resigns without complying with the required notice in N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-6.1
he or she shall be held as having resigned not in good standing. HRB 84-17
as amended A2a - Employee Resignation without giving 14 days notice.
Separated while IA pending
Yes
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 7/31/25, South Woods State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer Pierre Stokes submitted a resignation letter, effective immediately. In so doing, SCPO Stokes failed to give 14-days’ notice as per the N.J.A.C. as well as the Human Resource Bulletin. SCPO Stokes was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action on 8/14/25 for resignation not in good standing.
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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.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Pierre Stokes's major discipline record?
On July 31, 2025, South Woods State Prison Correctional Police Officer Pierre Stokes submitted a resignation letter effective immediately and did not give the required 14 days' notice, the Department of Corrections reported. Stokes was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for resignation not in good standing on August 14, 2025.
What is Pierre Stokes's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Pierre Stokes 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.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Pierre Stokes 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 Pierre Stokes individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 742. 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/. ↩