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Questions surround COVID-19 vaccine timeline for immigrants in ICE custody By Camilo Montoya-Galvez COVID vaccine timeline unknown for ICE detainees Krystal Chavez, who was a toddler when her father started his prison sentence in the early 1990s, said she was looking forward to hugging him for the first time outside of a detention facility. Martha, her sister, said she was hoping her father could finally meet his grandchildren. The U.S. citizen sisters did not get those opportunities. Their father, Cipriano Chavez-Alvarez, 62, had his life sentence for a non-violent drug conviction cut short by a federal judge who ordered his compassionate release from prison last July. U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake said Chavez-Alvarez s underlying medical conditions which included lymphoma, kidney disease and diabetes placed him at higher risk of serious injury or death if he contracted the coronavirus while incarcerated. ....