Senior Correctional Police Officer Stephen Wnuk called out sick and refused mandatory overtime at New Jersey State Prison on numerous dates between 2/8/25 and 8/6/25 without sufficient sick leave time to support the absences, which the Department of Corrections deemed chronic or excessive absenteeism. Wnuk signed a settlement agreement for retirement in good standing on 9/10/25.
A9 - Refusal or failure to work overtime without a reasonable excuse E1 - Violation of a rule
regulation
policy
procedure
order or administrative decision
Separated while IA pending
Yes
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 2/8/25,2/12/25, 2/14/25, 2/15/25, 2/17/25, 2/20/25, 4/19/25, 4/24/25, 5/17/25, 5/23/25, 5/31/25, 6/5/25, 6/6/25, 6/11/25, 6/17/25, 6/21/25, 6/24/25, 6/27/25, 7/12/25, 7/18/25, 7/19/25, 7/2325, 7/24/25, 7/25/25, 8/1/25, 8/2/25, 8/5/25, 8/6/25, New Jersey State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Stephen Wnuk called out sick and refused to work mandatory overtime. SCPO Wnuk did not have sufficient sick leave time to support the absences. This was deemed . SCPO Wnuk signed a settlement agreement on 9/10/25 for retirement in good standing.
Similar records
AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (3) Inability to perform duties (6) Conduct unbecoming a public employee (12) Other Sufficient Cause…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A9 - Refusal or failure to work overtime without a…
same agency · same year · 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.
No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows they resigned, retired, transferred, or otherwise separated from this agency while an internal affairs matter was pending, which can affect whether a current PFRS/SPRS record exists here. 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. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Stephen Wnuk's major discipline record?
Senior Correctional Police Officer Stephen Wnuk called out sick and refused mandatory overtime at New Jersey State Prison on numerous dates between 2/8/25 and 8/6/25 without sufficient sick leave time to support the absences, which the Department of Corrections deemed chronic or excessive absenteeism. Wnuk signed a settlement agreement for retirement in good standing on 9/10/25.
What is Stephen Wnuk's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Stephen Wnuk 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 Stephen Wnuk 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 Stephen Wnuk individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 770. 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/. ↩