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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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Tennessee’s highest officials and its highest courts have heard pleas for mercy, arguments pointing to systemic injustice and claims of innocence. But it took a once-in-a-century pandemic to move them to pause the state’s historic execution spree.
On Feb. 20, the state executed Nick Sutton, the seventh man put to death in Tennessee in 18 months. His electrocution was a continuation of a run of state killings unlike any seen here since the 1940s. Gov. Bill Lee has allowed four executions since taking office, just as his predecessor allowed three with a detached, false neutrality, as if it wasn’t a governor’s place to get too involved in this ugly business. Then the coronavirus breached the borders of our country and our state, and the walls of our prisons. The death chamber, like so much else, was temporarily closed. First the Tennessee Supreme Court, which rescheduled two executions, then the go