After 38 years of public service, Maryland Public Safety Secretary Mary Ann Saar announced her retirement Wednesday.
“I am sad to leave behind all of you and the ongoing work you are doing to ensure that the people of Maryland can rely on this department to keep their communities safer and more secure,” Saar wrote in an e-mail to Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services staff.
Saar?s prisons have been plagued by violence this year, including the homicides of two correctional officers.
Saar said she will retire Jan. 17, the day Democratic Gov.-elect Martin O?Malley takes office, replacing outgoing Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich.
