. HARRISBURG — Early in January, Angelo Romero sat in his cell at SCI-Smithfield and thought there would be no way people incarcerated, like himself, would get the COVID-19 vaccine. “The inmates don’t stand a chance on being vaccinated if it’s going to cost the [Department of Corrections] money,” he wrote in a letter to Spotlight PA. But to Romero’s surprise — along with prisoners’ rights advocates, public health experts, and even other inmates — the opposite has happened. Three out of the state’s 23 prisons have so far offered vaccines to inmates and staff, and the nu...