Tuesday, March 16, 2021

COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons

* Updated: 3 April 2021 at 10:55am EST *

1,429 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 31 March 2021 *

Prisoners = 1,087
Staff = 338
Contractor = 4
Total = 1,429

* 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 fewer or additional laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst provincial prisoners and prison staff in Ontario 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 March 2021)

Central East Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 21
Staff = 4
Total = 25
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

Central North Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 67 (minus 9 transferred from the closed Stratford Jail)
Staff = 1 + 5
Total = 64
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021CBC News (17 July 2020| Minister of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
Prisoners = 47
Staff = 32
Total = 79
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre
Prisoners = 64
Staff = 1 + 2 + 21
Contractor = 1
Total = 89
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021CBC News (17 July 2020) | Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project (28 November 2020) | CBC News (10 March 2021)

Kenora Jail
Prisoners = 2
Staff = 0
Total = 2
Source: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021)

Maplehurst Correctional Complex
Prisoners = 241
Staff = 2 + 80
Contractor = 1
Total = 324
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | CBC News (17 July 2020|  Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

Milton-Vanier Centre for Women
Prisoners = 39
Staff = 3
Contractor = 1
Total = 43
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | Minister of the Solicitor General (17 January 2021)

Monteith Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 1
Staff = 0
Total = 1
Source: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021)

Niagara Detention Centre
Prisoners = 9
Staff = 0
Total = 9
Source:  Government of Ontario (31 March 2021)

Ontario Correctional Institute
Prisoners = 91
Staff = 26
Total = 117
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021CBC News (17 July 2020)

Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
Prisoners = 24
Staff = 8
Total = 32
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) |  Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

Quinte Detention Centre
Prisoners = 2
Staff = 0
Total = 2
Source: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021)

Sarnia Jail
Prisoners = 51
Staff = 9
Total = 60
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) |  Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

South West Detention Centre
Prisoners = 23
Staff = 6
Contractor = 1
Total = 30
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | Windsor Star (20 March 2020) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre
Prisoners = 0
Staff = 1
Total = 1
Source: CBC News (17 July 2020)

Stratford Jail
Prisoners = 9
Staff = 1
Total = 10
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | CTV News (23 February 2021)

Thunder Bay Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 60
Staff = 21
Total = 81
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | Toronto Star (29 January 2021)

Thunder Bay Jail
Prisoners = 90
Staff = 41
Total = 131
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

Toronto East Detention Centre
Prisoners = 25 (1 dead on 23 March 2021)
Staff = 20
Total = 45
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)

Toronto South Detention Centre
Prisoners = 228
Staff = 1 + 53
Total = 282
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 March 2021) CBC News (17 July 2020) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (2 March 2021)
* most recent outbreak includes infections with variants - Toronto Star (16 March 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.  

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