A federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, grabbed national headlines in March 2020 after a COVID-19 outbreak killed at least eight inmates and sickened more than 100 people.
Sixteen months later, about 70% of its inmates have been vaccinated against the coronavirus - a rate more than double the 34% of Bureau of Prisons staffers there who have taken the shot, according to Oakdale's union leader Ronald Morris, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1007.
The fact that so few Oakdale employees have agreed to get vaccinated underscores the challenges President Joe Biden's administration will faceIn a statement, the president of the union representing BOP staff warned that his group would resist a federal vaccine mandate. Despite the risk, only 51% of BOP employees nationwide had been fully vaccinated as of June, although they had all been offered a shot, Attorney General Merrick Garland said during testimony before a Senate panel. That statistic has infuriated prison reform advocates.
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