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Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.On Monday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Alison Y. Tuitt ruled that all people in state-run prisons and jails must be made immediately eligible for vaccinations, describing the decision to of the public-health campaign as “unfair and unjust” and an “abuse of discretion.”While other New Yorkers living in crowded facilities, such as group homes and shelters, were able to get vaccinated in the of eligibility, public defenders the state in early February to ensure shot access for inmates. At the time, New York had authorized correction officers for vaccinations, but not prisoners, despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines encouraging simultaneous shot access for inmates and prison workers. (Hours after the class-action lawsuit was filed, the state announced it would begin vaccinating inmates over 65 years old.) Judge Tuitt’s ruling on Monday was in response to the February lawsuit filed in the Bronx. In it, she wrote that state officials “irrationally distinguished between incarcerated people and people living in every other type of adult congregate facility, at great risk to incarcerated people’s lives during this pandemic.”Since the beginning of the pandemic, the New York&nbsp;State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has 6,273 COVID-19 cases among inmates and 4,925 cases among corrections officers, as well as 35 inmate deaths and eight staff deaths. Around 50,000 people are incarcerated in New York correctional facilities, the New York Times.Many states in the nation, including Florida, have not yet made those incarcerated in state prisons eligible for a vaccine, while others, like New Jersey, began giving shots to the incarcerated as early as possible, as the CDC recommended. In February, in Oregon, a federal court judge state-run prisons to offer vaccinations to all inmates in a decision similar to Tuitt’s.Already, more than 2,500 prisoners with eligible conditions have received their first dose of the vaccine, while about three-quarters of New York’s 1,066 inmates over 65 have agreed to get inoculated — which mirrors national polling one in four Americans will refuse to get a shot.Daily news about the politics, business, and technology shaping our world.This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Googleandapply.Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy NoticeBy submitting your email, you agree to our and and to receive email correspondence from us.Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.THE FEEDCharles is now officially the kingKing Charles became the monarch after the death of his mother, but a meeting formally confirmed it on Saturday. He also approved the day of the Queen’s funeral&nbsp;, though it is not known what date this will be. 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Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.On Monday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Alison Y. Tuitt ruled that all people in state-run prisons and jails must be made immediately eligible for vaccinations, describing the decision to of the public-health campaign as “unfair and unjust” and an “abuse of discretion.”While other New Yorkers living in crowded facilities, such as group homes and shelters, were able to get vaccinated in the of eligibility, public defenders the state in early February to ensure shot access for inmates. At the time, New York had authorized...

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