Frustrations continue over mandates

Last week, the deputy secretary of the state Department of Corrections sent a mass email to all staff, incarcerated inmates and interested parties — including me — informing everyone Corrections had revised its COVID protocols for inmates.

Minutes after reading the DOC email, I sent an email to a DOC official and wrote:

“It is my understanding that all DOC employees must be vaccinated. Further is it true all inmates do not have to be vaccinated? At this time what percentage of inmates are vaccinated?”

The official soon replied with this: “You are correct there is no Vaccine mandate for individ...