HARTFORD, Conn. — Advocates for prison inmates say more needs to be done to educate prisoners about coronavirus vaccines because large numbers of them are declining the shots.
Prison officials say they are providing information about the vaccines to prisoners. But advocates say outside experts and trusted community members need to be brought in.
Officials at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, held town halls and posted information around the prison before vaccinations began in January.
But more than 200 of the nearly 550 inmates who were offered the shots refused to take them. More than 5,500 state and county prisoners in Massachusetts have refused the vaccines.
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