General causes; Failure to return from approved leave of absence.
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Senior Correctional Police Officer Ryan Darling was terminated by the Dept Of Corrections in 2022 for failure to return from an approved leave of absence. The record cites general causes and failure to return from an approved leave of absence as the sustained charges.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Failure to return from approved leave.
Compensation and pension
No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2327. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩