Southwest Virginia group pushes to prioritize COVID-19 vaccine for inmates
“There’s no social distancing. There’s no control over their health care.’
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As frontline workers and health care professionals get their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, members of the National Lawyers Guild want to make sure another population vulnerable to COVID-19 doesn’t get overlooked.
Alan Stuart Graf, president of the guild’s Southwest Virginia chapter, said when it comes to who receives the COVID-19 vaccine, inmates should also be a priority.
“Some people will say, ‘Oh, who cares about prisoners? They screwed up. They hurt society. We shouldn’t really be caring about them.’ Well, it’s a reflection on us and what kind of people we are,” said Graf.