COVID-19 vaccine, given how susceptible prisons and jails have been to outbreaks and how prevalent chronic disease is in that population.“I don’t think they should go to the front of the line, but I certainly don’t think they should be denied their rightful place in the priority line simply because they’re prisoners,” said Catherine Latimer, executive director of the John Howard Society of Canada.
More than 100 federal inmates, corrections officers test positive for COVID-19 The Correctional Service of Canada said that, as of Monday, there were a total of 201 active COVID-19 cases in federal prisons.