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Wife: Prison guard who survived leukemia dies of COVID-19

By Associated Press

05/12/2020

LANSING, Kan. (AP) — A coronavirus outbreak that has sickened 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 61-year-old George “Bernie” Robare, a former Marine and longtime Corrections Department guard. The Kansas City Star reports that Susan Robare was worried her husband wouldn’t be able to defeat the virus when he tested positive last month. He was a leukemia survivor.

Meanwhile, a Kansas court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a civil rights rights group seeking the immediate release of prisoners who have preexisting medical conditions that make them vulnerable to the coronavirus.

Leavenworth District Judge David King dismissed the class action petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas on behalf of seven inmates and others similarly situated at Kansas prisons.

The district court found the ACLU didn't prove that jail officials either failed to meet their constitutional duty to provide adequate medical care or acted with deliberate indifference to the inmates' serious medical needs.

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