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Vaccinating Prisoners Against COVID-19 Should Be a Priority Wendy Netter Epstein © (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Inmate Christian Millett gets the first of two COVID-19 coronavirus shots by Alyssa Dobbs, an LPN contractor in the medical department at the Worcester County Jail and House of Corrections in West Boylston, MA on Jan 22, 2021. Officials have started administering COVID-19 vaccines in Massachusetts correctional facilities. Watson Gray, at 73, survived cancer and strokes but suffered from diabetes, high blood pressure and coronary heart disease....

CHRISTY GUTOWSKI Chicago Tribune Gray had lived behind bars for more than 40 years, serving a life sentence for hiring a relative to kill his business partner in 1978. In the decades that followed, he tried to improve himself in prison, his lawyer said, working as a barber, a teacher and paralegal. He mentored younger men and ran an inmates’ chapter of the Jaycees charity, as well as other prison programs. Citing his age and poor health, Gray’s lawyer made a final plea for mercy dated Nov. 5. A day later, Gray died of complications related to COVID-19. Due to the novel c...

- Cool Papa Bell - Tuesday, Dec 22, 20 @ 1:17 pm: I feel like DOC is place for the U of I test to be rolled out. Why has that still not been better utilized? I know FDA ect… but at this point are we really waiting for the Feds to lead? ===but at this point are we really waiting for the Feds to lead? === Nobody’s gonna do it without the feds’ permission. End of story. This entire episode is a collective failure by DOC and the sheriffs. It started with DOC simply telling the counties they can’t send them any sentence inmates (via a Pritzker EO) regardless if they were Covid positive ...