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Prioritizing Incarcerated People for Vaccine Quickly Reduced COVID in IL Prisons
by Brian Dolinar, TruthOut.org
"One thing about prison, youdon’t want to get sick in here,” says James Trent, who is incarcerated in Western Illinois Correctional Center. When the chance came to get the vaccine for COVID-19, most people inside got the shot “because this is very serious,” he told Truthout ...
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- Illinois Prison Phone Rates are Lowest Following Grassroots Activism, Aug. 6, 2019
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