Overview
- Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint and the FBI served a summons on corrections officer Jordan Pensak at FCI Fort Dix, actions investigators took Monday charging her with sexual abuse of a person in custody.
- Investigators say they seized two contraband inmate cellphones that held more than 100 explicit images and recovered Pensak’s personal phone with messages in which she allegedly admitted the relationship and described a Jan. 29 pregnancy scare.
- The complaint alleges the relationship began after April 2024 and involved repeated sexual encounters in an office at the low-security, all-male Fort Dix complex with the inmate paying other prisoners to act as lookouts.
- The Federal Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on the pending case and would not publicly confirm Pensak’s employment status, while local reporting indicates she has been placed on administrative leave and is scheduled to appear in federal court in Camden.
- The case underscores ongoing problems with contraband cellphones and unauthorized social media in prisons and could prompt closer review of Fort Dix security procedures, inmate supervision and staff oversight.