COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons

* Updated: 2 July 2021 at 5:55pm EDT *

2,240 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 29 June 2021 *

Prisoners = 1,728 (1 dead)

Staff = 508

Contractor = 4

Total = 2,240

* 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

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Central East Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 215

Staff = 15

Total = 230

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Central North Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 104 (minus 9 transferred from the closed Stratford Jail)

Staff = 8

Total = 103

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre

Prisoners = 72

Staff = 50

Total = 122

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre

Prisoners = 80

Staff = 33

Contractor = 1

Total = 114

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Kenora Jail

Prisoners = 9

Staff = 0

Total = 9

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Maplehurst Correctional Complex

Prisoners = 291

Staff = 96

Contractor = 1

Total = 388

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Milton-Vanier Centre for Women

Prisoners = 56

Staff = 8

Contractor = 1

Total = 65

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Monteith Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 39

Staff = 11

Total = 50

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Niagara Detention Centre

Prisoners = 15

Staff = 2

Total = 17

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

North Bay Jail

Prisoners = 32 (-32 prisoners transferred due to 24 June 2021 temporary closure)

Staff = 1

Total = 1

Sources: Radio-Canada Nord de l'Ontario (26 June 2021) | CTV News (24 June 2021)

Ontario Correctional Institute

Prisoners = 91

Staff = 27

Total = 118

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre

Prisoners = 85

Staff = 13

Total = 98

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Quinte Detention Centre

Prisoners = 5

Staff = 0

Total = 5

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Sarnia Jail

Prisoners = 52 

Staff = 8

Total = 60

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

South West Detention Centre

Prisoners = 48

Staff = 19

Contractor = 1

Total = 68

Sources: Windsor Star (20 March 2020) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre

Prisoners = 0

Staff = 2

Total = 2

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Stratford Jail

Prisoners = 9 + 2

Staff = 2

Total = 13

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Sudbury Jail

Prisoners = 2

Staff = 0

Total = 0

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Thunder Bay Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 64

Staff = 22

Total = 86

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Thunder Bay Jail

Prisoners = 98

Staff = 44

Total = 142

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Toronto East Detention Centre

Prisoners = 47 (1 dead on 23 March 2021)

Staff = 38

Total = 85

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Toronto South Detention Centre

Prisoners = 349

Staff = 107

Total = 456

Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (29 June 2021 | 27 June 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.