Trenton Bureau Coronavirus cases within New Jersey prisons are climbing again as state officials are making their plan to vaccinate more than 12,100 inmates and the thousands of staff that come and go each day. Garden State prisons got hammered by the virus, giving the state the unwanted distinction of the highest prison death rate in the country. And with the first vaccines delivered to the state last week, officials are figuring out where prison inmates fit in the rollout plan. Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday that they would be in phase 1B, after the state's about 650,000 front-line health care workers and certain long-term care facility residents.