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Credit: PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MACGREGOR CAMPBELL / OPB Prisoners eligible for stimulus checks, but getting payout behind bars is complicated By Like many Americans, people behind bars are waiting to see if they will be getting checks from the federal government as part of the new stimulus bill provided it passes Congress this month as expected. The majority of incarcerated people in Washington and Oregon were likely eligible for the first two rounds of relief money. Advocates for prisoners say the all too common refrain of What happened to my check? shows the system for the incarcerated needs to be improved. This comes after a federal judge reversed an initial attempt by the Internal Revenue Service to disqualify inmates from receiving stimulus payments. ....
Updated February 3 On Feb. 2, a federal judge ordered state officials to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to all inmates in Oregon state prisons as soon as possible. The governor s office says it will comply adding prisoners to the teachers, healthcare workers and nursing home residents at the front of the vaccine line. Maney v. Brown. The plaintiffs allege that the Oregon Department of Corrections willfully and wantonly ignored the public health threat caused by this global pandemic. The plaintiffs, represented by the prison rights group, the Oregon Justice Resource Center, sought to improve prison conditions amid rising COVID-19 cases, and to reduce the prison population. ....
In a first, a federal judge orders Oregon state prisons to vaccinate inmates. The Oregon State Penitentiary, in Salem, Ore., where some inmates have received Covid-19 vaccines.Credit.Danielle Peterson/Statesman-Journal, via Associated Press Feb. 3, 2021 A federal court judge in Oregon has ordered the state prison system to inoculate every inmate who wants to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The order, the first in the nation, comes as many states have declined to make vaccinating prisoners a priority, even though severe virus outbreaks inside prisons have been common. The ruling, handed down Tuesday night by Stacie Beckerman, a federal magistrate judge, said the state’s 12,100 prison inmates should be vaccinated as soon as possible. It was not clear on Wednesday whether the state intended to appeal. ....
Department of Corrections Faces Legal Challenges as Employees Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Inmates claiming inadequate protection from COVID-19 receive favorable judgement in on-going case against DOC, as staff receives first vaccines As of Jan. 10, statewide 27 adults in custody incarcerated by the Department of Corrections have died after testing positive for COVID-19, according to the DOC s Response to the Novel Coronavirus in Oregon website. There are 604 active cases among AICs statewide including 25 at the Deer Ridge Correctional Institute in Madras. Cases among DOC staff are self-reported due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, but there have been 43 such reported cases at DRCI to date, 705 statewide. ....