Sunday, February 27, 2022

COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons (end-February 2022)

  * Updated: 2 March 2022 at 11:20am ET *

6,027 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 28 February 2022 *

Prisoners = 4,648 (2 dead)
Staff = 1,375
Contractor = 4
Total = 6,027

* 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. 

INSTITUTIONS AND CASES

Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre
Prisoners = 47
Staff = 29
Total = 76
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Brockville Jail / St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre
Prisoners = 4 
Staff = 30
Total = 34
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022) | Ottawa Citizen (14 December 2021)

Central East Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 737 (minus 2 transferred from when the Brockville Jail closed)
Staff = 50
Total = 787
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Central North Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 463 (minus 9 transferred from when the Stratford Jail closed)
Staff = 75
Total = 528
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
Prisoners = 268
Staff = 116
Total = 384
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Fort Frances Jail
Prisoners = 6
Staff = 4
Total = 10
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre
Prisoners = 177
Staff = 83
Contractor = 1
Total = 261
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Kenora Jail
Prisoners = 138
Staff = 15
Total = 153
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Maplehurst Correctional Complex
Prisoners = 546
Staff = 185
Contractor = 1
Total = 732
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022) | Radio-Canada Toronto (26 November 2021)

Milton-Vanier Centre for Women
Prisoners = 110
Staff = 41
Contractor = 1
Total = 152
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Monteith Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 122
Staff = 15
Total = 137
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Niagara Detention Centre
Prisoners = 71
Staff = 45
Total = 116
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

North Bay Jail
Prisoners = 32 + 123 (-32 prisoners transferred due to 24 June 2021 temporary closure)
Staff = 42
Total = 165
Sources: Radio-Canada Nord de l'Ontario (26 July 2021) | CTV News (24 June 2021) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Ontario Correctional Institute
Prisoners = 106
Staff = 34
Total = 140
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
Prisoners = 220
Staff = 51
Total = 271
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Quinte Detention Centre
Prisoners = 54
Staff = 39
Total = 93
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Sarnia Jail
Prisoners = 94 
Staff = 45
Total = 139
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

South West Detention Centre
Prisoners = 131 (1 dead in December 2021)
Staff = 70
Contractor = 1
Total = 202
Sources: Windsor Star (20 March 2020) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Stratford Jail
Prisoners = 9 + 5 (minus 9 transferred due to 22 February 2021 temporary closure)
Staff = 6
Total = 11
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022) | Stratford Beacon Herald (22 February 2021)

Sudbury Jail
Prisoners = 82
Staff = 22
Total = 104
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)
* 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 = 76
Staff = 24
Total = 100
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Thunder Bay Jail
Prisoners = 208
Staff = 83
Total = 291
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Toronto East Detention Centre
Prisoners = 194 (1 dead on 23 March 2021)
Staff = 78
Total = 272
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

Toronto South Detention Centre
Prisoners = 666
Staff = 193
Total = 859
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (27 February 2022 | 15 February 2022)

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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