{"id":681029,"date":"2021-08-24T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=681029"},"modified":"2021-08-24T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:06:07","slug":"washington-state-jail-offers-inmates-ramen-noodles-to-get-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-state-jail-offers-inmates-ramen-noodles-to-get-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Jail Offers Inmates Ramen Noodles To Get Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-state-jail-offers-inmates-ramen-noodles-to-get-vaccine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=681029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-677609264.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A jail in Washington state is offering inmates ramen noodles to get the coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at Benton County Jail, located in the city of Kennewick in southern Washington,&nbsp;offered packs of the instant noodles to inmates who sign up for their first COVID-19 shot, The Olympian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/news\/state\/washington\/article253647918.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The program, called \u201cSoup for Shots,\u201d has achieved results in the about three weeks since it was implemented on August 1.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the jail said it expected to distribute 900 packets of noodle soup to 90 inmates by Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/news\/state\/washington\/article253647918.html\">according<\/a> to Scott Souza, chief of corrections for the Benton County Corrections Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing everything we can do to incentivize vaccination and we are getting outstanding response,\u201d Souza told The Olympian.<\/p>\n<p>Posters around the jail reportedly advertise the new vaccine incentive and note that the prize only applies to an inmate\u2019s first shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo encourage and support COVID vaccination efforts, the Benton County Department of Corrections will be providing each inmate that starts their vaccination series with 10 FREE RAMEN NOODLE SOUPS!!!\u201d the posters read, along with a large photo of ramen noodles.<\/p>\n<p>Jail staff reportedly chose ramen noodles as the incentive to get the shot because the packages are one of the jail\u2019s most popular commissary items.<\/p>\n<p>The jail currently has 360 inmates and serves all law enforcement agencies in Benton County.<\/p>\n<p>Benton County Jail is not the only jail to try an incentive program to encourage inmates to get the jab.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Department of Corrections <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/alabama-offering-canteen-credit-prisoners-vaccinated\/story?id=79224396\">offered<\/a> to give $5 in canteen credit to inmates who get the vaccine as well as those who have already gotten their shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA confined correctional environment in which social distancing is challenging and all communicable diseases, to include COVID-19, spread more easily is \u2014 put simply \u2014 starkly different than a community environment,\u201d Kristi Simpson, a spokesperson with the Alabama Department of Corrections, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/alabama-offering-canteen-credit-prisoners-vaccinated\/story?id=79224396\">told<\/a> ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Sedgwick County Jail in in Wichita, Kansas, offered inmates $10 in commissary items for getting the vaccine. The $10 is equal to about eight to 10 packs of ramen, four bags of chips, and jalapenos, Lt. Jared Schechter with the jail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2021\/08\/19\/sedgwick-county-jail-offers-vaccine-incentives-residents-sees-increase-vaccinations\/\">told<\/a> KWCH-TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is to mitigate COVID-19 in the jail as much as possible. It\u2019s a correctional environment,\u201d Schechter told the outlet. \u201cWe\u2019re running at capacity or more above capacity today on inmates, and so social distancing is very difficult to do in a correctional environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A slew of companies, celebrities, and local governments have offered incentives for people to get the vaccine as well. The trend appears to have been started in March by Krispy Kreme, which started giving out free donuts to anyone who had received a coronavirus vaccine. Celebrity Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s announced&nbsp;that he would give a&nbsp;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">$50 gift certificate for his Think Food Group restaurants to anyone who shows proof that they have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C., treated those who got the jab to free beer at at least one pop-up site. The city also teamed up with Uber to provide free round-trips for those who wished to come to the vaccination and beer event.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jail in Washington state is offering inmates ramen noodles to get the coronavirus vaccine.Staff at Benton County Jail, located in the city of Kennewick in southern Washington,\u00a0offered packs of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}