VADOC's Dialogue Unit identified the facilities with the lowest vaccination acceptance rates and worked with wardens, superintendents, and security chiefs to establish dialogue sessions at those sites. The aim was to give inmates a genuine voice: to surface the fears, experiences, and reasoning behind hesitancy rather than simply intensifying pressure to comply. The Department had already lost Warden Earl Barksdale, a leader of more than 40 years, to the virus, and the weight of that loss shaped the urgency behind these efforts. Personal testimony, the team had observed, was shifting perspectives far more than official guidance; the dialogue sessions were designed to create a container where that testimony could circulate safely among inmates themselves. Published in The World Needs Dialogue! Four: Putting Dialogue to Work, this paper offers a rare account of dialogue deployed inside a correctional system at a moment of institutional crisis, where trust between the Department and the incarcerated population was itself part of what needed addressing.