December 10, 2021 |
Beginning next week, the Wyoming State Penitentiary will be headed by its first female warden. The Department of Corrections announced Thursday that Deputy Warden Neicole Molden will take over the top post at the prison on December 17th.
Molden already made history as the maximum security prison’s first female deputy warden. She will be the facility’s second African American warden.
Molden will replace Michael Harlow, who resigned. Harlow was appointed to the position in June 2020.
Molden has been with the department since 2009, when she was hired as a unit manager at the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution in Torrington. After eight years there, she worked as an associate warden at the women’s prison in Lusk before becoming the deputy warden in Rawlins in January 2020.
Pictured above: The Wyoming State Prison’s new Warden, Neicole Molden. Photo courtesy of Wyoming Department of Corrections.
