A second corrections officer accused of fudging jail records the day a Cumberland County Jail prisoner committed suicide has been given a chance to have the charge against him dismissed.

Justin Cimino, 40, of Vineland, will avoid jail time and have his record cleared if he completes a pretrial intervention program that he was accepted into in Superior Court in Bridgeton Friday.

Cimino is one of three corrections officers who have been charged in connection with the suicides of two inmates in separate incidents over several months in 2017.

The deaths were part of a bigger string of suicides at the jail -- six in three years -- that has prompted calls for investigations and retraining, as well as lawsuits claiming the jail and its medical care provider are failing prisoners who end up taking their lives in their cells.

Cimino is charged with third-degree tampering with public records for allegedly making false entries on a "close watch" form and incident form for David Conroy, 32, who was found hanged in his cell in May of 2017, not long after he was admitted to the jail. The purpose of the close watch form is to document that an officer has done a routine check on a prisoner who is considered a suicide risk.

The Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office initially charged Cimino and another officer, Nicholas Gomez, with the tampering charge as well as a charge of third-degree endangering another person.

Both could have meant jail time for the officers but in both cases, the office dropped the latter charge and agreed to let them enter a pretrial intervention program.

Gomez, who was admitted into the program in March, and Cimino have agreed to resign from their jobs and to forfeit any future public employment as conditions of the PTI program, according to a release from the prosecutor's office. The tampering charge will be dropped if they complete the program.

Conrad Benedetto, who represents Conroy's family in the federal lawsuit, said the loss of Conroy has weighed heavily on his family, including his two children.

"Mr. Cimino and Mr. Gomez get to go home, and Mr. Conroy can't go home," he said Friday.

Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae and Cimino's attorney, Jeffrey Ziegelheim, did not return calls seeking comment Friday.

The case of another corrections officer charged in connection with a separate suicide is still ongoing. Tabatha Roman of Vineland was indicted in 2017 with endangering another person after the Feb. 20 hanging suicide of Megan Moore, 21.

Her attorney, Stuart Alterman of Marlton, said at the time the the county was trying to "deflect responsibility" for what happened onto Roman, though she did nothing wrong.

Days after the prosecutor's office announced the three officers were being charged and suspended without pay, lawsuits were filed and the union representing the jail's corrections officers said they were doing the best they could but needed better mental health training to keep inmates safe.

The million-dollar lawsuit on behalf of Conroy's estate blames the county, the jail, Warden Richard Smith, former warden Robert Balicki, and CFG Health Systems for his death. The family claims that CFG Health Systems "failed to properly screen" Conroy for suicidal tendencies or any other psychological problems and did not properly monitoring Conroy while he was incarcerated.

The jail's administrators failed to enact policies and training to ensure staff were monitoring inmates properly and keeping them safe, the suit claims.

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