* Updated: 18 January 2022 at 1:20pm ET *
2,863 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 21 December 2021 *
Prisoners = 2,250 (2 dead)
Staff = 609
Contractor = 4
Total = 2,863
* 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 provincial prison staff in Ontario that have not been publicly disclosed. There was no proactive disclosure of COVID-19 prisoner cases between 22 December 2021 and 2 January 2022. The 3 January 2022 prisoner case figures (which includes 98 new cases) will be added to the end of January reporting by the Prison Pandemic Partnership.
INSTITUTIONS AND CASES
Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre
Prisoners = 31
Staff = 15
Total = 46
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Brockville Jail
Prisoners = 2
Staff = 4
Total = 6
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b) | Ottawa Citizen (14 December 2021)
Central East Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 278 (minus 2 transferred from when the Brockville Jail closed)
Staff = 17
Total = 295
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Central North Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 145 (minus 9 transferred from when the Stratford Jail closed)
Staff = 12
Total = 148
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
Prisoners = 84
Staff = 54
Total = 138
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre
Prisoners = 88
Staff = 34
Contractor = 1
Total = 123
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Kenora Jail
Prisoners = 11
Staff = 1
Total = 12
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Maplehurst Correctional Complex
Prisoners = 377
Staff = 109
Contractor = 1
Total = 487
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b) | Radio-Canada Toronto (26 November 2021)
Milton-Vanier Centre for Women
Prisoners = 58
Staff = 8
Contractor = 1
Total = 70
Monteith Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 42
Staff = 11
Total = 53
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Niagara Detention Centre
Prisoners = 53
Staff = 28
Total = 81
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
North Bay Jail
Prisoners = 33 (-32 prisoners transferred due to 24 June 2021 temporary closure)
Staff = 1
Total = 2
Sources: Radio-Canada Nord de l'Ontario (26 July 2021) | CTV News (24 June 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Ontario Correctional Institute
Prisoners = 91 + 8
Staff = 27
Total = 126
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
Prisoners = 102
Staff = 14
Total = 116
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Quinte Detention Centre
Prisoners = 19
Staff = 2
Total = 21
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Sarnia Jail
Prisoners = 53
Staff = 8
Total = 61
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
South West Detention Centre
Prisoners = 96 (1 dead in December 2021)
Staff = 25
Contractor = 1
Total = 122
Sources: Windsor Star (20 March 2020) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre
Prisoners = 4
Staff = 2
Total = 6
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Stratford Jail
Prisoners = 9 + 2 (minus 9 transferred due to 22 February 2021 temporary closure)
Staff = 2
Total = 4
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b) | Stratford Beacon Herald (22 February 2021)
Sudbury Jail
Prisoners = 2
Staff = 10
Total = 12
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
* A number of prisoners who contracted COVID-19 at the Sudbury Jail, which was temporarily closed following a October 2021 outbreak, were transferred elsewhere leading to additional transmission at the Central North Correctional Centre (20 October 2021) and Toronto South Detention Centre (27 October 2021). These cases are not included in the Sudbury Jail cases above, which preceded the October 2021 outbreak, but are included instead as part of the Central North Correctional Centre and Toronto South Detention Centre figures.
Thunder Bay Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 66
Staff = 22
Total = 88
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Thunder Bay Jail
Prisoners = 98
Staff = 44
Total = 142
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Toronto East Detention Centre
Prisoners = 88 (1 dead on 23 March 2021)
Staff = 47
Total = 135
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
Toronto South Detention Centre
Prisoners = 462
Staff = 114
Total = 576
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (21 December 2021a | 21 December 2021b)
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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