The Case For Vaccinating Prisoners Early
Huff PostPrisoners in Chicago's Cook County Jail plead for help by posting a sign in window. The risks for incarcerated people, who are infected by the virus at a rate more than five times higher than the nation’s overall average, are clear and undeniable. A good way of doing that is making sure that the high-risk people, like nursing homes and prisons and jails are protected ― that’s the best way to keep those beds open. If national and state authorities want to use age as a tool for prioritization, they need to be using a lower age limit for people who are in jail and prison than in the community. I don’t want to empty the jails and prisons ― there are people in there who need to be in there for our safety and they need to be in there for rehabilitation ― but there are some people, who right now given the risks of staying in prison, and the risks of being released to the public, where the risk-benefit balance is in favor of letting them out.
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