coronavirus before most of the population under plans to treat prisons like care homes.Vaccination teams would be sent to jails to give jabs to inmates and staff en masse after all over 50s have been inoculated.The proposal is believed to have been welcomed by the prison service, Public Health England (PHE) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).However if ministers adopt the proposals it would mean killers, rapists and violent crooks could be protected before millions of law abiding citizens.A government source said the prison service argued in favour of treating prisons like care homes because they have similar problems containing the virus.Like care homes, staff come in and out of prisons with people living in.