Mon Nov 15, 2021 – 6:27 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has championed lockdowns and vaccine mandates, but he has come out against a jab requirement for prison workers.
The governor asked a federal judge to pause a vaccine requirement for prison workers. A hearing is set for Wednesday to hear challenges to the prison jab mandate.
“U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar last month ordered the state to come up with a plan to vaccinate all prison employees — not just those in health care settings — along with inmates who work outside of the prison,” the Sacramento Bee reported October 22. “Tigar’s order aligned with a recommendation from J. Clark Kelso, a federal receiver who oversees medical care inside the prisons.”
Newsom and the California Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, along with the union that represents correctional officers, want to see the jab requirement paused.
They told Judge Tigar “[f] implemented, numerous correctional officers will leave their jobs rather than submit to a COVID-19 vaccine,” the Los Angeles Times paraphrased the court request as saying.
“That exodus, they argue, would plunge the state’s 34 prisons, which house some 99,000 inmates, into a crisis, including creating situations that could leave prisoners locked in
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