Human Services Member - Commissioner Rose Jones

Rose Jones is a former Warden of the Brooklyn Correction Institution in Brooklyn, Connecticut. The adult male, medium-security facility specializes in sex offender treatment and provides services to those sentenced for sexually related, domestic violence and/or risk of injury offensives. She retired in April 2001.

Ms. Jones began her career as a Correctional Officer in 1979 at the Niantic Correctional Institution for Women, where she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Ms. Jones was later appointed Executive Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner of Operations, and in December 1990 became Executive Assistant/Legislative Liaison to the Commissioner of Corrections. During her career with the Connecticut Department of Correction, she served as Deputy Warden of Operations and Treatment of both minimum and maximum adult sentenced and pre-trial and adult male facilities.

Ms. Jones’ work has been recognized by the Connecticut General Assembly, Association of Police Commissioners, Council of Negro Women, and Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, and National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice.

Ms. Jones earned her Bachelors of Science degree from New Hampshire College, and completed two years of graduate studies in public administration at the University of New Haven.

She serves on several boards and committees including the Board of Directors for the Southeastern Connecticut Women’s Center, League of Women Voters and American Cancer Society Advisory Committee.
Ms. Jones was appointed to the African-American Affairs Commission in November 2003 by Governor John G. Rowland.