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Oregon Prisoners Face Off in Guards’ Legal Fight Over COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate
Loaded on March 1, 2022
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2022, page 48
As of December 1, 2021, just 99 Oregon employees—0.25% of the state’s 40,000 workers, had been fired for violating a mandate that they must be vaccinated against COVID-19. It was unclear how many of those were fired from the state Department of Corrections (DOC), though six weeks earlier just …
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