Wednesday, September 1, 2021

COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons

  * Updated: 1 September 2021 at 2:15pm EDT *

2,300 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Ontario Provincial Jails and Prisons as of 30 August 2021 *

Prisoners = 1,788 (1 dead)
Staff = 508
Contractor = 4
Total = 2,300

* 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 = 4
Staff = 2
Total = 6
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Central East Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 229
Staff = 15
Total = 244
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Central North Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 110 (minus 9 transferred from the closed Stratford Jail)
Staff = 8
Total = 109
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
Prisoners = 75
Staff = 50
Total = 125
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre
Prisoners = 85
Staff = 33
Contractor = 1
Total = 119
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Kenora Jail
Prisoners = 10
Staff = 0
Total = 10
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Maplehurst Correctional Complex
Prisoners = 298
Staff = 96
Contractor = 1
Total = 395
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Milton-Vanier Centre for Women
Prisoners = 58
Staff = 8
Contractor = 1
Total = 67
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Monteith Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 42
Staff = 11
Total = 53
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Niagara Detention Centre
Prisoners = 17
Staff = 2
Total = 19
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

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)

Ontario Correctional Institute
Prisoners = 91
Staff = 27
Total = 118
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
Prisoners = 90
Staff = 13
Total = 103
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Quinte Detention Centre
Prisoners = 6
Staff = 0
Total = 6
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Sarnia Jail
Prisoners = 52 
Staff = 8
Total = 60
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

South West Detention Centre
Prisoners = 54
Staff = 19
Contractor = 1
Total = 74
Sources: Windsor Star (20 March 2020) | Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre
Prisoners = 0
Staff = 2
Total = 2
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Stratford Jail
Prisoners = 9 + 2
Staff = 2
Total = 13
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Sudbury Jail
Prisoners = 2
Staff = 0
Total = 2
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Thunder Bay Correctional Centre
Prisoners = 64
Staff = 22
Total = 86
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Thunder Bay Jail
Prisoners = 98
Staff = 44
Total = 142
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Toronto East Detention Centre
Prisoners = 48 (1 dead on 23 March 2021)
Staff = 38
Total = 86
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 2021 | 27 June 2021)

Toronto South Detention Centre
Prisoners = 352
Staff = 107
Total = 459
Sources: Ministry of the Solicitor General (30 August 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.   

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