100 doses of COVID-19 vaccine headed to Willacy County State Jail
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Texas had more COVID-19 deaths in prisons and jails than any other state, according to a report from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Since the pandemic started, at least 231 inmates and employees died from COVID-19, according to a report published in November. The total included 27 employees, 14 people who died in jails and 190 people who died in prisons. The risk is to that person that s in jail, to everybody on the staff, said attorney Abner Burnett.