coronavirus in Canada were given their inoculations inside facilities without any active cases, Global News has learned.That’s despite a number of prisons seeing outbreaks that have led to conditions that advocates call inhumane, while others also wonder why correctional officers aren’t being prioritized.The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) began its vaccination pilot program for prisons Friday, with four federal institutions set to administer a combined 1,200 doses of Moderna’s vaccine in the coming days — enough to eventually inoculate 600 inmates.
Federal inmates to start receiving coronavirus vaccinations this week, union says Only one of those facilities, the Drummond Institution in Drummondville, Que., has ever seen any COVID-19.