* Updated: 2 June 2021 at 1:05pm EST *
2,075 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 31 May 2021 *
Prisoners = 1,580 (1 dead)
Staff = 491
Contractor = 4
Total = 2,075
* 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 = 4
Staff = 2
Total = 6
Source: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Central East Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 197
Staff = 4 + 9
Total = 210
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021) | Peterborough Examiner (25 May 2021)
Central North Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 79 (minus 9 transferred from the closed Stratford Jail)
Staff = 8
Total = 78
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | CBC News (17 July 2020) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
Prisoners = 74
Staff = 49
Total = 123
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Global News (29 April 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre
Prisoners = 80
Staff = 33
Contractor = 1
Total = 114
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Kenora Jail
Prisoners = 8
Staff = 0
Total = 8
Source: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021)
Maplehurst Correctional Complex
Prisoners = 279
Staff = 97
Contractor = 1
Total = 377
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Milton-Vanier Centre for Women
Prisoners = 50
Staff = 8
Contractor = 1
Total = 59
Monteith Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 32
Staff = 4
Total = 36
Source: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Niagara Detention Centre
Prisoners = 14
Staff = 2
Total = 16
Source: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Ontario Correctional Institute
Prisoners = 91
Staff = 27
Total = 118
Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
Prisoners = 66
Staff = 10 + 1
Total = 77
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021) | Ottawa Citizen (31 May 2021)
Quinte Detention Centre
Prisoners = 5
Staff = 0
Total = 5
Source: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021)
Sarnia Jail
Prisoners = 52
Staff = 8
Total = 60
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
South West Detention Centre
Prisoners = 41
Staff = 19
Contractor = 1
Total = 61
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Windsor Star (20 March 2020) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 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 = 2
Total = 11
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Sudbury Jail
Prisoners = 2
Staff = 0
Total = 2
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021)
Thunder Bay Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 63
Staff = 22
Total = 85
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Thunder Bay Jail
Prisoners = 98
Staff = 44
Total = 142
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Toronto East Detention Centre
Prisoners = 47 (1 dead on 23 March 2021)
Staff = 38
Total = 85
Sources: Government of Ontario (31 May 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 May 2021)
Toronto South Detention Centre
Prisoners = 298
Staff = 103
Total = 401
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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