WASHINGTON - All inmates will be provided the opportunity to receive a COVID-19 vaccination by mid-May, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday.In a statement, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Michael D.
Carvajel said the federal agency is focused on several priority areas, including mitigating the risk of COVID-19 infection among inmates, staff and detainees."All Bureau staff have been offered one of the COVID-19 vaccines, and by April 19 all inmates will be eligible for a vaccine; by mid-May, we anticipate that all inmates will have been provided the opportunity to be vaccinated," Carvajel wrote.The agency said it deployed a vaccination strategy developed in partnership with the federal government’s COVID Vaccine and.