COVID Outbreaks Devastated Prisons, but State Inmates’ Access to the Vaccine Varies Widely
Photography by Charlie Riedel/Associated Press
One year into the pandemic, COVID-19 case rates among prison inmates were four times higher than the general public’s, and the death rate was more than twice as high. Yet many state vaccine policies left incarcerated individuals far behind other citizens. In reporting this one, my colleague Derek Norman and I chased updates on changing state vaccine policies until moments before the piece was published.