Corrections employees sue state over COVID-19 vaccine or testing mandate – Center Square

IDOC was one of the last holdouts of state employees Gov. J.B. Pritzker mandated last fall to be vaccinated as a condition of employment. The 46 employees who filed suit in Christian County Circuit Court work at 18 different correctional facilities run by the state of Illinois.
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Doris M Davis
2 years ago

As I’m a person with someone in a prison, if the employees don’t want to protect the lives of the people they were hired to protect they have no business being around the inmates. Maybe they should work in the office far away from prisoners who can’t protect themselves from being exposed!

Pat S.
2 years ago
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I’m all for safety in our jails/prisons. If there was any proof that jabs protected others, I’d agree. But there isn’t any. By now most people have been exposed/infected and have natural immunity. Are you aware that the drug manufacturers bear no liability no matter how badly the injection affects a person? Totally off the hook. The manufacturers have no risk; the risk is all on the person accepting the injection(s). “Emergency Use Authorization” means we’re all lab rats in a mass clinical trial. We won’t know the result of this reckless requirement for mass gene therapy injections for years… Read more »

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