LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The head of Arkansas’ prison system is retiring at the end of next month following an outbreak of coronavirus that has infected more than 2,300 inmates. Arkansas Department of Corrections Secretary Wendy Kelley announced her retirement Monday at a state Board of Corrections meeting. Kelley served as the director of the Department of Correction from January 2015 until
July 2019, when Gov. Asa Hutchinson named her secretary of the reorganized department. Kelley warned at a news conference in April that if the virus got into one of the state’s prisons “it will be disastrous.”
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