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Jose Saldaña: The Fight to Vaccinate New Yorkers Behind Bars
You Decide with Errol Louis
English - March 31, 2021 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture ny1 nyc culture errol errollouis newyork newyorkcity politics youdecidewitherrollouis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After months of people incarcerated in jails and prisons being excluded from New York’s vaccine rollout, a judge ruled that the state must allow New Yorkers behind bars access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Jose Saldaña, the director of the Release Aging People in Prison campaign, joined Errol to talk about the ruling and the overall state of medical care in state prisons. And as someone who was incarcerated for nearly four decades, he discussed his personal journey and his experience with the parole system.
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