Vaccines will save us all. They work so well. Just take the jab and this will never concern you. /sarc.
You make a great point; something that didn't occur to me. If they haven't fulfilled the terms of their punishment, just give them the poke, stick them back in a cell, and let them finish paying their "debt to society". Seems to me that the new policy is a defacto admission that the pokes don't work and/or that the current admin doesn't give a whit about crime and punishment.