On 11/16/24, Correctional Police Officer Victor Donnelly responded to an emergency code at East Jersey State Prison where two incarcerated persons were fighting. Donnelly escorted an incarcerated person to the infirmary, where that person reported the other had tried to rape him. Donnelly failed to report or document this Prison Rape Elimination Act allegation. He signed a settlement agreement for a 20-day suspension on 2/6/25.
(a) General Causes (6) a public employee (12) HRB 84-17
as amended B9 - Incompetence or C11 - an employee D7 - Violation of administrative procedures and/or regulations involving safety and security E1 - Violation of a rule
regulation
policy
procedure
order or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 11/16/24, East Jersey State Prison’s Correctional Police Sergeant (CPS) Victor Donnelly responded to an emergency code incident wherein two incarcerated persons were fighting. CPS Donnelly escorted an incarcerated person to the infirmary, where he reported that the other incarcerated person tried to rape him. CPS Donnelly failed to report or document this Prison Rape Elimination Act allegation. CPS Donnelly signed a settlement agreement for a 20-day suspension on 2/6/25.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Victor Donnelly's major discipline record?
On 11/16/24, Correctional Police Officer Victor Donnelly responded to an emergency code at East Jersey State Prison where two incarcerated persons were fighting. Donnelly escorted an incarcerated person to the infirmary, where that person reported the other had tried to rape him. Donnelly failed to report or document this Prison Rape Elimination Act allegation. He signed a settlement agreement for a 20-day suspension on 2/6/25.
What is Victor Donnelly's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Victor Donnelly 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 Victor Donnelly 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 Victor Donnelly individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 605. 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/. ↩