Kentucky prison has outbreak of COVID-19 cases

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky state prison is in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak. The state will soon begin vaccinating inmates 70 and older, but officials are awaiting on supplies of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. New cases in the state’s prison population have more than doubled since March 3, and most of those positive tests were at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. Officials say 555 new cases have occurred since March 3 at the penitentiary in western Kentucky. Brown says 11 of the state’s 14 facilities have no cases.