FRANKFORT,  KY – Kentucky Department of Corrections Commissioner John D. Rees promoted Cookie Crews to warden of the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women.

 “Cookie Crews has served the Department of Corrections for the past two years as warden at the Frankfort Career Development Center and she has done a superb job,” said Rees. “She will bring vitality, innovation and a breath of fresh air to KCIW. Cookie has demonstrated her leadership ability and is very deserving of this promotion.”

Crews began her career in January 1984 as a CO at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women and promoted to sergeant the following year. She was then promoted to classification and treatment officer at the Kentucky State Reformatory in 1987 and served in the same position at the Roederer Correctional Complex the next year.
 
She then became correctional unit administrator I at KSR and in 1998 was promoted again to unit administrator II at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex. In 2002 she became deputy warden III, and served a seven-month stint as acting warden at LLCC. In September 2004, she was promoted to warden of the Frankfort minimum-security prison.

Crews is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University with a major in Corrections and public relations. She is a member of the Southern States Correctional Association (SSCA) and the Kentucky Council on Crime and Delinquency (KCCD).