Two Pa. Prisons Have Vaccinated More than 70% of Inmates. An Incentive Program May be Making a Difference.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Early in January, Angelo Romero sat in his cell at SCI-Smithfield and thought that there would be no way people incarcerated, like himself, would get the COVID-19 vaccine. “The inmates don’t stand a chance on being vaccinated if it’s going to cost the [Department of Corrections] money,” he wrote in a letter to Spotlight PA. But to […]