Kansas corrections officials have announced the appointment of a new warden for the Lansing Correctional Facility, and he began his career in Sedgwick County.

Jesse Howes will begin work as the new warden at Lansing on August 7th.   He began his career with the Kansas Department of Corrections in 2006 as a lead case mamager in the reentry program in Sedgwick County, and moved to the position of parole supervisor in 2008.   He led a team of parole officers supervising high-risk gang members and parolees with severe and persistent mental illness.   In 2017, he was promoted to deputy warden at the Wichita Work Release Facility, and then transferred in 2022 to the El Dorado Correctional Facility to serve as deputy warden of programs overseeing restrictive housing, release and reentry services, health care and programming for residents.

Howes has a Bachelor of Psychology degree from Newman University and earned a Master’s degree in business law from Friends University.