COVID-19 Cases Linked to Manitoba Provincial Jails and Prisons (end of February 2021)

 * Updated: 27 February 2021 at 3:45pm EST *

580 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Manitoba Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 26 February 2021

Prisoners = 461 

Staff = 119

Total = 580

INSTITUTIONS AND CASES

Agassiz Youth Centre

Prisoners = 13

Staff = 5

Total = 18

Source: Data MB (26 February 2021)

Brandon Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 90

Staff = 19

Total = 109

Source: Data MB (26 February 2021)

 

Headingly Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 214 

Staff = 46 

Total = 260

Source: Data MB (26 February 2021)

Manitoba Youth Centre

Prisoners = 0 

Staff = 5

Total = 5

Source: Data MB (26 February 2021)

 

Milner Ridge Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 83 

Staff = 26 

Total = 109

Source: Data MB (26 February 2021)

 

The Pas Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 0

Staff = 1

Total = 1

Source: Data MB (26 February 2021)

Winnipeg Remand Centre

Prisoners = 34

Staff = 13 

Total = 47

Source: Data MB (26 February 2021)

Women’s Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 27 

Staff = 4

Total = 31

Source: Data MB (26 February 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.