Texas hasn’t said when or how inmates will receive the coronavirus vaccine
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Prisoners line up inside the fences of the McConnell Unit in Beeville. Credit: Jennifer Whitney for The Texas Tribune
Texas’ prisons and jails have been coronavirus hot spots throughout the pandemic. At least about 200 Texas inmates have died with COVID-19. So have more than 30 people who worked inside the state’s prisons and countless others have spread the virus inside lockups and into the surrounding communities.
But it’s unclear when the still-limited doses of virus vaccines will be made available to the more than 186,000 people detained in Texas prisons and jails. That timeline is among several factors Texas prison officials either haven’t decided or haven’t publicly released more than nine months into the pandemic and weeks after leaders knew a vaccine was on the horizon.
Texas inmates haven t received coronavirus vaccine
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No Way Out: Texas prisoners describe what it s like inside lock-up during the coronavirus pandemic
A joint investigation with The Marshall Project exposes how COVID-19 was allowed to spread due to a lackluster response by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Credit: WFAA Published: 4:30 PM CST December 13, 2020 Updated: 4:40 PM CST December 13, 2020
More than 33,000 staff and prisoners have caught COVID-19 in the Texas prison system.
A WFAA investigation with The Marshall Project exposes how the coronavirus spread due to a lackluster response by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
For this project, reporters reviewed dozens of policy documents, internal reports, and leaked emails, along with hundreds of letters from prisoners and a handful of images and recordings captured on contraband cell phones. Interviews with more than 110 staff, prisoners and their family members.