Inmates Are a High Risk for COVID Transmission, but a Low Priority for Tennessee A state panel won t prioritize prisoners for vaccination, fearing a âpublic relations nightmare Tweet
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, which houses Tennesseeâs death rowPhoto: Daniel Meigs
Associated Press reporters Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise were able to get a hold of documents showing that the state panel that decided what order Tennesseans get vaccinated in âacknowledged that prison inmates in the state were high-risk, but concluded that prioritizing them for inoculation could be a âpublic relations nightmare.ââ And so inmates were ranked last for vaccines.
If weâre ranking nightmares, being trapped in a small cell in a long row of small cells stuffed with people while a deadly virus with as-yet-unknown long-term health implications passes through the prison seems like it would be way higher up on the list than âre
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