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.
First step contact the Ombudsman here
[email protected]
They are to investigate complaint.
TDCJ has not allowed in person visitation due to COVID since last year. Are you certain this is because of vaccination status or the virus?
I visit weekly, they allow in-person visits when a unit reaches 70 percent vaccination and 0 covid cases. I have been able to visit in person for about 2 months now. They just changed policy specifically for unvaccinated.