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    The jury decided it was fair to vaccinate prisoners before the general public after two days of deliberation. On the first day, prosecutors argued to vaccinate all groups gradually, including prisoners, saying not all prisoners are vulnerable. Their witness, a teacher who lost his son to COVID, said prisoners should be punished. On the second day, defense argued prisoners cannot socially distance due to overcrowding and are the government's responsibility to reintroduce to society. Their witness, a virologist, said the virus spreads fast in prisons. At the end, prosecutors said the vaccine doesn't stop spread but prioritizes the elderly and sick, while defense said it's the government's duty to protect incarcerated populations who have

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    The jury decided it was fair to vaccinate prisoners before the general public after two days of deliberation. On the first day, prosecutors argued to vaccinate all groups gradually, including prisoners, saying not all prisoners are vulnerable. Their witness, a teacher who lost his son to COVID, said prisoners should be punished. On the second day, defense argued prisoners cannot socially distance due to overcrowding and are the government's responsibility to reintroduce to society. Their witness, a virologist, said the virus spreads fast in prisons. At the end, prosecutors said the vaccine doesn't stop spread but prioritizes the elderly and sick, while defense said it's the government's duty to protect incarcerated populations who have

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    The jury decided it was fair to vaccinate prisoners before the general public after two days of deliberation. On the first day, prosecutors argued to vaccinate all groups gradually, including prisoners, saying not all prisoners are vulnerable. Their witness, a teacher who lost his son to COVID, said prisoners should be punished. On the second day, defense argued prisoners cannot socially distance due to overcrowding and are the government's responsibility to reintroduce to society. Their witness, a virologist, said the virus spreads fast in prisons. At the end, prosecutors said the vaccine doesn't stop spread but prioritizes the elderly and sick, while defense said it's the government's duty to protect incarcerated populations who have

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    Is it fair prisoners get vaccinated before

    everyone else?
    On August 26th at Colegio Anchieta, in defense of
    the incarcerated population, the jury decided it was
    fair to vaccinate the prisoners before the rest of us.
    The decision was made after two days of
    deliberation, where the prosecutors and the
    defense attorneys exposed various facts and
    brought witnesses to help the jury make a decision.

    On the first day, the prosecutors had the time to argue their opinion. Their main argument
    revolved around vaccinating everyone, including the prisoners, gradually, saying that not all the
    incarcerated population is vulnerable and just the ones who are should be vaccinated first. Their
    witness was a 45 years old male teacher who lost his son to covid-19, during his statement he
    said “prisoners should be punished”. In an interview afterwards, I asked him if he thought that
    his son would still be alive today, if they had vaccinated the free people upfront, the witness
    answer was “Nowadays, there are searches that prove vaccines work, so I think there would’ve
    been more chance of survival for my son, if he had been vaccinated before.”.

    The defense attorneys got their time on the second day and
    began their argument stating that in prisons due to the
    overcrowding population, social distance is impossible. The
    defense made a point that prisoners are the government's
    responsibility, and said that if they’re not vaccinated, how will
    they be reintroduced in society? Besides that, their witness, a
    virologist, stated that virus spread very fast inside prisons and
    infect the ones who work there.

    At the end of the second day the final statements from


    the prosecutors were that the vaccine doesn't stop the
    contamination of covid-19, and that vaccination should
    prioritize the eldery and sick people inside and out of the
    prisons. In response to that the defense said that it’s the
    government’s duty to protect the incarcerated population
    since they no longer have control over several things in
    their lives. The jury, as I already said, voted on
    vaccinating the incarcerated population first as fair. Now,
    it is only for you to think if the government shouldn’t
    protect you as well.

    written by Bibiana Ahlert Schneider

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