I visit my brother in prison once a week and up untill today I would visit him in person with a contect visit. Meaning face to face and we can hug. TDCJ Ramsey unit just changed their policy to make it so only vaccinated inmates can get full contact visits essentially mandating the vaccine for contact visits for the inmates. He has major heart issues and religious resons for not getting the "vaccine". He is one of very few i mates that are still unvaccinated, so it appears ti be a rule simply to harm him for his choice.
Abbot signed an order preventing any entitiy public or private from mandating the vaccine in yet TDCJ is mandating it for visitation.
The vaccines are under EUA so they cant be mandated for that reason as well.
What can I do? Please help.
I know this may sound crazy... but please consider writing a letter to your governor, explaining circumstances and asking for clemency (the governor can legally grant a full pardon). May help to send it registered. If you know anyone who can hand deliver it to him, all the better.
Following are links for the normal channels for pardon application in Texas:
https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/bpp/exec_clem/exec_clem.html
https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/bpp/forms/forms.html
Praying for you guys.