{"id":26696,"date":"2021-01-25T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=267570"},"modified":"2021-01-25T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:39:57","slug":"refusing-to-vaccinate-prisoners-is-both-cruel-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/25\/refusing-to-vaccinate-prisoners-is-both-cruel-and-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both cruel and dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both CRUEL and DANGEROUS\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qhO0nvfp8Ew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Public health experts and advocates continue to shine a light on the horrifying statistics of COVID-19 infections within the prison-industrial complex. Those same experts, moreover, have shown that outbreaks in prisons and jails spread quickly and violently to communities outside prison walls. And yet, this humanitarian and public health crisis is still largely going unaddressed. In this week&#8217;s episode of Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway talks with Dr. Lauren Brinkley-Rubenstein, assistant professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a core faculty member of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research, and one of the co-founders of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covidprisonproject.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID Prison Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tune in every Monday for new episodes of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/rattling-the-bars\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rattling the Bars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/refusing-to-vaccinate-prisoners-is-both-cruel-and-dangerous\">Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both cruel and dangerous<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/refusing-to-vaccinate-prisoners-is-both-cruel-and-dangerous\">The Real News Network<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisons and jails are hotbeds of coronavirus contagion\u2014for incarcerated people and staff, but also for the wider community. Prioritizing them for vaccinations is a humanitarian and public health necessity.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/refusing-to-vaccinate-prisoners-is-both-cruel-and-dangerous\">Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both cruel and dangerous<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,5579,5580],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26697,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696\/revisions\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}