HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Longtime Corrections employee Rex Pryor is retiring from his position as warden at the Lansing Correctional Facility effective June 18. Replacing him is Sam Cline, current warden at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, while Dan Schnurr, warden at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility, will move to Hutchinson.
That according to a news release from the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Pryor, a 36-year veteran of the department, started as a Corrections Officer and rose through the LCF ranks to serve as deputy warden of operations in 1999 and then to warden in 2013.
Cline was named warden at Hutchinson Correctional Facility in June 2007 after serving as warden at Ellsworth Correctional Facility for four years. Cline received a bachelor’s degree in religion from Conception Seminary College in Conception, Mo., with an additional two years of graduate studies at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md.
Schnurr began his career in corrections at Hutchinson Correctional Facility in 1985 as a corrections officer and received several promotions before moving to Ellsworth Correctional Facility in 2010 to serve as deputy warden. He was named warden in June 2011. Schnurr earned his bachelor’s degree from Sterling College in Sterling.
The Ellsworth Correctional Facility warden will be named at a later date.