When a correctional officer took a poll of his co-workers on a private Facebook group asking whether they would get the COVID-19 vaccine, only 40 of 475 (8.4 percent) said yes and more than half replied, “Hell no”.1
This informal poll appears to represent the sentiment of Department of Corrections employees across the country. Despite strong encouragement by the Department of Corrections, more than half the Corrections staff refused to take the vaccine in Massachusetts when it was offered. State officials maintain that some of the staff may have gotten the shot elsewhere and were not declining the vaccine altogether.2
In Rhode Island, a higher percentage of prison staff has refused the vaccine than prison inmates. Statewide surveys in California reveal that half of the correctional officers plan to wait to get vaccinated and in Iowa only a little more than half plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine.3 Oregon state officials project that as many as 55 percent of prison staff would be willing to get the vaccine.4
Concern Over COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects Main Reason for Inmate Refusal
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