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Wells, Katherine

On GDC's 2025 payroll

Profile written September 23, 2026

Current Position Superintendent Emanuel Probation Detention Center
Salary $77,259 2025 · state payroll

This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.

GPS records show no deaths attributed to facility-leader tenures held by Katherine Wells. Her career history is documented in the Positions table: she held non-leadership roles at Hancock State Prison (mailroom clerk, 2008; account paraprofessional, 2012), financial-operations staff positions at Washington State Prison and at the department level (2015–2017), deputy warden posts from 2018 through 2025 — including Hancock State Prison (2018; again in November 2023) and a deputy warden assignment at Emanuel Probation Detention Center into September 2025 — before moving into the facility-lead tier as Superintendent at Emanuel Probation Detention Center effective September 16, 2025, a role in which no attributed deaths, lawsuits, or intel reports are recorded in the provided data.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.

Positions Held

TitleFacilityTenure
Correctional SuperintendentEMANUEL PROBATION DETENTION CENTER2026-08-27 → present
SuperintendentEMANUEL PROBATION DETENTION CENTER2025-09-16 → present
DEPUTY WARDENEMANUEL PROBATION DETENTION CENTER2025-01-01 → present
DEPUTY WARDEN2019-01-01 → 2024-12-31
Deputy WardenHANCOCK STATE PRISON2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22
DEPUTY WARDENHANCOCK STATE PRISON2018-01-01 → 2018-12-31
FINANCIAL OPS GENERALIST 32016-01-01 → 2017-12-31
FINANCIAL OPS GEN (AL)WASHINGTON STATE PRISON2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31
Account ParaprofessionalHANCOCK STATE PRISON2012-01-01 → 2012-12-31
Mailroom ClerkHANCOCK STATE PRISON2008-01-01 → 2008-12-31

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