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, inmates in America’s overcrowded prisons were four times more likely than the general public to contract the virus and twice as likely to die from it. Yet officials in many states put them near the back of the line when deciding who got the new vaccine first. My colleague Derek Norman and I chased the details on fast-evolving state vaccine policies until moments before this piece was published.