Mission

To provide humane program and service opportunities for female offenders that will enhance their community re-integration and economic self-sufficiency; and that will be administered in a just and equitable manner within the least restrictive environment consistent with public, staff and inmate safety.

3000 Ash Ave.
Pewee Valley, Kentucky 40056
Warden: Cookie Crews
Secretary: Donna Dailey

Phone: (502) 241-8454
    Fax: (502) 241-0372

• Prisons Receive Perfect Scores in National Re-Accreditation Audits
  Monday, July 28, 2008
  Frankfort, Ky. (July 25, 2008) – Blackburn Correctional Complex (BCC) and Frankfort Career and Development Center (FCDC) received perfect scores during their re-accreditation process this week with the American Correctional Association (ACA). Both prisons received a score of 100% on non-mandatory and mandatory standards.
• Robert Howerton Promoted to Warden at Blackburn Correctional Complex
  Monday, July 07, 2008
  Frankfort, Ky. (July 3, 2008) – Kentucky Department of Corrections Deputy Commissioner Al Parke today announced the promotion of Robert Howerton to warden of Blackburn Correctional Complex in Lexington. He begins his new job on July 16.
• Larry Chandler to Retire as Warden of KSR; J. David Donahue Will Return to Kentucky
  Tuesday, June 24, 2008
  Frankfort, Ky. (June 24, 2008) – Larry Chandler’s name has become synonymous with Kentucky Corrections. Twenty-six years ago he walked through the doors of the Kentucky State Reformatory and went to work as a correctional officer. At the end of August when he retires as warden of KSR, he will walk out those same doors leaving his mark on not only that prison, but the entire state correctional system.