Glen Rose Reporter
Debate has erupted over how to prioritize prisoners in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Six states have promised to put them ahead of other groups, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. The remaining states are either not prioritizing them or staying silent on what their plans are.
Like the decarceration debate that’s endured since April when the spread of the novel coronavirus started tearing through these places, there’s little consensus on what to do, despite the fact that illness in prison threatens all of us. On Dec. 15, Prison Policy Initiative reported that mismanagement of COVID-19 inside prisons led to at least 500,000 cases in the community over summer 2020 alone.