Older Kansans should receive the COVID-19 vaccine before prisoners

Prisoners in Kansas correctional facilities have a lower risk of death from COVID-19 than Kansans 45 years and older. So even though they live in “congregate settings” why have Kansas inmates been designated as a critical population in our state’s vaccine plan, prioritizing them to receive COVID-19 vaccinations before most other Kansans? Governor Laura Kelly, in a Dec. 23 interview with the…