A federal court-appointed official is seeking a vaccine mandate for all California prison guards and staff.
Seeking a vaccine mandate for all state prison guards and staff, a federal court-appointed receiver overseeing the medical care of California’s prisons argued Friday that there have been 11 coronavirus-related deaths since August among corrections employees who were not fully vaccinated and outbreaks at 21 prisons.
But Newsom and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have continued to fight the request to mandate vaccinations for all corrections guards and staff. The CDCR oversees 35 prisons and about 99,000 inmates. It points out that California was the first state to mandate vaccination or testing for all its state workers, including correctional employees, and a state order covering health workers being vaccinated covers three medical prisons.
Newsom and the state’s opposition to the mandatory vaccines are supported by the unions representing correctional officers and other staff. Specter said it is the first time Kelso, appointed by the court to protect the health of those locked up in California, has “broken with the state in the last year on how to react to the pandemic.” The prison law office has for months called upon Kelso to push for mandatory vaccines, saying it is a matter of life and death.Kelso asked Tigar to impose the mandate saying the Delta variant of the virus “poses enormous risks.
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