It’s Hot Vax Summer — for jailbirds.
State prison officials are so desperate to get inmates vaccinated against COVID-19 that they’re dangling care packages, barbecue parties and even conjugal visits, according to a memo issued this week to the nearly 34,000 jailbirds.
A mere 45 percent of New York’s incarcerated felons have been inoculated, compared to more than 70 percent of the law-abiding population, Acting Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Anthony Annucci wrote.
Meanwhile, “many other state prison populations have much higher vaccination rates,” Annucci lamented.
“To encourage you to do your part in this fight, the Department will implement an incentive program,” he wrote Wednesday.
The plan includes randomly gifting five fully vaccinated inmates in each of the state’s 50 prisons care packages filled with “the most popular food items sold at our assigned facility’s commissary, not to exceed a $75 value.”
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