NJ Corrections Staff Defy Vaccine Mandate
New Jersey’s prisons face a potential staffing crisis, as more than half of corrections staff have failed to meet a deadline for getting COVID-19 vaccines or lose their jobs, Only about 43 percent of the 7,280 civilian and uniformed corrections staff had received at least one vaccine jab as of Wednesday.
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New Jersey’s prisons face a potential staffing crisis, as more than half of corrections staff have failed to meet a deadline for getting COVID-19 vaccines or lose their jobs, reports the New Jersey Monitor. Only about 43 percent of the 7,280 civilian and uniformed corrections staff had received at least one vaccine as of Wednesday. Earlier this week, the state supreme court rejected an effort by police unions to block Gov. Phil Murphy’s mandate. Pat Colligan, president of the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association says the mandate penalizes state workers who showed up “when the rest of the world was on Zoom, showed up to the prisons, locked themselves behind bars 10 or 11 months before a vaccine was even available to anybody.” He added, “Many are going to be tossed out with the bathwater.”
