Philadelphia has announced a series of new coronavirus restrictions, including mask mandates in some indoor and outdoor settings. City officials will also soon be required to get vaccinated or double mask while at work.
Councilmembers of Philadelphia’s Public Safety and Inmate advocates question the vaccination efforts of the Department of Prisons
The Covid-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on vaccination attempts being done by the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. This spotlight was shone at a Joint Committee meeting of the Philadelphia City Council on March 17 as they questioned the testing efforts of the prison department, as well as Covid-19 positivity rates in the prisons.
Philadelphia Department of Prisons releases a daily census of positivity rates and mortalities. There’s about 1136 adult males in the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center (PICC) with COVID-19 according to the Department of Public Health’s website. In addition, there’s 32 juvenile males in Riverside Correctional Facility (RCF) with COVID-19. Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (CFCF) has the highest positivity rates in the PDP system with 2326 male prisoners with COVID-19.