Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Yahaida Figueroa

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 60 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (6) a public employee (12) HRB 84-17, as amended B2 - , loafing, idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks which could result in danger to persons or property B8 - Serious mistake due to carelessness which may result in danger and/or injury to persons or property B9 - Incompetence or C11 - an employee D1- Negligence in performing duty resulting in injury to persons or property 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

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

On 11/12/24, Senior Correctional Police Officer Yahaida Figueroa of New Jersey State Prison did not complete her unit tours or counts as required by policy while working her post on 7 Right, 5 Tier of Unit B. Her negligence resulted in an injury to an incarcerated person not being reported, and the injury left the person with significant burns on his body. Figueroa signed a settlement agreement on 5/21/25 for a 60-day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 11/12/24, New Jersey State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Yahaida Figueroa was working her post on 7 Right, 5 Tier on Unit B. An investigation revealed that SCPO Figueroa did not complete her unit tours or counts per New Jersey Department of Correction's policy. SCPO Figueroa's negligence resulted in a serious injury to an incarcerated person not being reported. The injury left the incarcerated person with significant burns on his body. SCPO Figueroa signed a settlement agreement on 5/21/25 for a 60-day suspension.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $123,932
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 10 years, 10 months

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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 618. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213675, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩