Michigan Prisoners Offered Covid-19 Vaccine

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

All prisoners at the Livingston County Jail have been offered a Covid-19 vaccine, but only 50 have taken up the offer, according to an official of the county sheriff's department.
The jail has a maximum capacity of 411 inmates and among the current prisoners are Barry J. Cadden, 54, and Glenn A. Chin, 53, who are awaiting trial on second degree murder charges.
Under Sheriff Jeff Warder said in an email response to questions that only two inmates at the facility have tested positive for Covid-19 and those prisoners had been transferred from a federal facility.
When those transfers occurred Cadden and Chin were already in the Livingston County facility.
We confirmed they did not contract the virus while being lodged at our facility," Warder said, adding that the two inmates were never exposed to the general population.
He did not imediately respond when asked if Cadden and Chin were among those vaccinated. Chin and Cadden have been charged with 11 counts of second degree murder for their roles in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
They already have been convicted of racketeering, conspiracy and mail fraud in federal court. Cadden, who was president and part owner of the New England Compounding Center, the company blamed for the outbreak.
Chin was a supervising pharmacist at NECC and oversaw activities in the clean room, where fungus riddled steroids were prepared.
Two separate federal juries declined to convict the two of racketeering second degree murder.
Both Chin and Cadden are expected to appeal a recent ruling from the Michigan Court of Appeals, which turned down a motion that would have effectively eliminated the murder charges.
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