COVID-19 Cases Linked to British Columbia Provincial Jails and Prisons

* Updated: 1 February 2021 at 4:10pm *

153 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to British Columbia Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 31 January 2021

Prisoners = 108 

Staff =  45

Total = 153

INSTITUTIONS AND CASES

Fraser Regional Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 11

Staff = 2

Total = 13

Source: News 1130 (31 January 2021)

North Fraser Pretrial Centre

Prisoners = 1 + 21

Staff = 0 + 1 + 5

Total = 28

Sources: Vancouver Sun (25 September 2020) | News 1130 (23 January 2021) | CTV News (23 January 2021) | New Westminster Record (25 January 2021)

Okanagan Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 1 + 1

Staff = 3 + 7 + 1

Total = 13

Sources: CBC News (17 July 2020) | CTV News (14 August 2020) | Global News (14 September 2020) | New Westminster Record (25 January 2021) 

Surrey Pretrial Centre

Prisoners = 0 + 39

Staff = 3 + 1

Total = 43

Sources: News 1130 (24 October 2020) | News 1130 (23 January 2021) | CTV News (27 January 2021)

Unknown Institutions 

Prisoners = 36 (minus 1 Okanagan and 1 North Fraser prisoner cases from 2020 above)

Staff = 35 (minus 10 Okanagan and 3 Surrey staff cases from 2020 above)

Total = 56 

Source: TriCity News (22 January 2021)

RESEARCH PROJECT AND FUNDING 

The data above was compiled as part of the "COVID-19: Investigating Canada's Carceral Response to the Coronavirus through the Prison Pandemic Partnership" (principal investigator: Kevin Walby, PhD - uWinnipeg | co-investigator: Justin Piché, PhD - uOttawa | partner organization: Canadian Civil Liberties Association) project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The partnership project is housed within the Centre for Access to Information and Justice at the University of Winnipeg.