COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons

* Updated: 5 February 2021 at 11:20pm (figures remain pre-February 2021) *

820 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 31 January 2021 *

Prisoners = 597 

Staff = 219

Contractor = 4

Total = 820

* Data based on figures made publicly available through government, union and media reporting. Due to the quality of the data available, it is possible that there are additional laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst Ontario provincial jail and prison staff that have not been publicly disclosed. 

INSTITUTIONS AND CASES

Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre

Prisoners = 2

Staff = 0

Total = 2

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021)

Central East Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 11

Staff = 2

Total = 13

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Central North Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 26

Staff = 1 + 5

Total = 32

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | CBC News (17 July 2020) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre

Prisoners = 21

Staff = 4 + 13

Total = 38

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | CBC News (27 January 2021)

Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre

Prisoners = 5

Staff = 1 + 2

Contractor = 1

Total = 9

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | CBC News (17 July 2020) | Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project (28 November 2020) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Kenora Jail

Prisoners = 2

Staff = 0

Total = 2

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021)

Maplehurst Correctional Complex

Prisoners = 134

Staff = 2 + 52

Contractor = 1

Total = 189

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | CBC News (17 July 2020) | Toronto Star (29 January 2021) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Milton-Vanier Centre for Women

Prisoners = 20

Staff = 1

Contractor = 1

Total = 22

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Monteith Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 1

Staff = 0

Total = 1

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021)

Niagara Detention Centre

Prisoners = 8

Staff = 0

Total = 8

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021)

Ontario Correctional Institute

Prisoners = 91

Staff = 26

Total = 117

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | CBC News (17 July 2020)

Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre

Prisoners = 12

Staff = 8

Total = 20

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Sarnia Jail

Prisoners = 3

Staff = 4

Total = 7

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

South West Detention Centre

Prisoners = 5

Staff = 5

Contractor = 1

Total = 11

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | Windsor Star (20 March 2020) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre

Prisoners = 0

Staff = 1

Total = 1

Source: CBC News (17 July 2020)

Thunder Bay Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 54

Staff = 11

Total = 65

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | Toronto Star (29 January 2021)

Thunder Bay Jail

Prisoners = 47

Staff = 18

Total = 65

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | Toronto Star (25 January 2021) | Toronto Star (29 January 2021)

Toronto East Detention Centre

Prisoners = 13

Staff = 12

Total = 25

Source: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Toronto South Detention Centre

Prisoners = 142

Staff = 1 + 43

Total = 186

Sources: Government of Ontario (31 January 2021) | CBC News (17 July 2020) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Unknown Institutions 

Staff = 7 (93 cases attributed to EDMC, MCC, TBCC and TBJ noted above)

Total = 7

Source: Toronto Star (29 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.