A coronavirus outbreak that has infected hundreds of people at the largest prison in Kansas has claimed the life of a prison guard, the first employee at the facility to die of the virus.
Department spokeswoman Rebecca Witte says three Lansing Correctional Facility inmates already had died of the virus before the employee died Monday.
Relatives identified the man as George “Bernie” Robare, 61, a former Marine and longtime Corrections Department guard. He was a leukemia survivor.