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Oregon Women’s Prison Adopts New Vaccination Practices For Upcoming Flu Season

The prison has a new message: “Health Services cares about you staying healthy and recommends getting the flu vaccine annually.”

Murmurs: Oregon Lawmakers Will Take Another Crack at Auto Thefts

In other news: Coffee Creek adopts flu reforms.

The Dialogue: What Readers Had to Say About the Woman Who Died at an Oregon Prison After Not Receiving a Flu Vaccine

Last week, WW revealed that the Oregon’s women’s prison, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, failed to provide flu shots to most of its inmates. One prisoner, Tina Ferri, contracted the virus and died after not receiving a vaccination (“A Bug in the System, WW, March 21, 2018).

The Dialogue: What Readers Had to Say About the Woman Who Died at an Oregon Prison After Not Receiving a Flu Vaccine

Last week, WW revealed that the Oregon’s women’s prison, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, failed to provide flu shots to most of its inmates. One prisoner, Tina Ferri, contracted the virus and died after not receiving a vaccination (“A Bug in the System, WW, March 21, 2018).

Oregon Failed to Provide Flu Vaccinations to Most of Its Prison Inmates. One Woman Died.

Experts say the state’s choices left prisoners defenseless in a confined space as the virus spread.

Oregon Was About to Open a Second Women's Prison Because of 25 Inmates

Next week, the Department of Corrections was poised to ask the Emergency Board of the legislature to help it do just that by allocating an additional $9 million to reopen the Oregon State Penitentiary Minimum facility for women. That would have been on top of $1 million that was already set aside for the opening.

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