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Department of Corrections
Ravonne Sims Promoted to Deputy Warden at KSR
Kentucky Department of Corrections Deputy Commissioner Jim Erwin today announced the promotion of Ravonne Sims to Deputy Warden of Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) in LaGrange.
Sims began her career in 1999 as a Classification and Treatment Officer at the Roederer Correctional Complex (RCC) in the Assessment Center. In 2000 she received a promotion outside of the Department of Corrections as a Microbiologist I with the Department for Public Health.
Sims returned to the Department of Corrections in 2001. In 2003, she promoted to Corrections Unit Administrator I at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex (LLCC). Two years later she was promoted again and returned to KSR where she began supervising the prison’s 130-bed segregation unit.
In 2007 Sims transitioned to Unit A at the Reformatory which houses approximately 700 offenders and includes the prison’s Nursing Care Facility. Sims implemented and has continued to oversee KSR’s dog program called: Rehabilitation and Excellence Achieved with Canines and Humans (REACH). She also currently serves as KSR’s back-up Public Information Officer
Sims served on the Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT) at RCC and LLCC from 2002-2005 and she has received training in Hostage Negotiation. In 2009 she was appointed to coordinate classification issues at Northpoint Training Center (NTC) for offenders involved in the riot that occurred in August 2009.
She is a 2006 graduate of the Department’s first Commissioner’s Executive Leadership Program, and is a current participant in the 2011 Commissioner’s Executive Leadership Program.
Sims is a graduate of the University of Louisville where she earned bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology.
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