Tuesday, February 1, 2022

COVID-19 Cases Linked to Federal Penitentiaries (end-January 2022)

* Updated: 1 February 2022 at 6:55pm ET *

3,932 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Federal Penitentiaries Operated by Correctional Correctional Service Canada | CSC as of 31 January 2022 *

Prisoners = 2,886 (6 dead)
Staff = 1,046
Total = 3,932

* 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 federal penitentiary staff that have not been publicly disclosed. 

ATLANTIC REGION
Prisoners = 140
Staff = 13

Total = 153

Nova Institution for Women 

Prisoners = 25

Staff = 0

Total = 25

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022


Springhill Institution

Prisoners = 50

Staff = 0

Total = 50

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022


Atlantic Institution

Prisoners = 6

Staff = 7

Total = 13

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022 | 30 December 2021


Dorchester Penitentiary  

Prisoners = 59 (medium)

Staff = 6

Total = 65

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CTV News (24 November 2021) 


QUEBEC REGION
Prisoners = 815
Staff = 145
Total = 960

Archambault Institution 

Prisoners = 81 (minimum) + 85 (medium)

Staff = 5

Total = 171

Sources: CBC News (21 July 2020) | Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022)


Cowansville Institution

Prisoners = 50

Staff = 0 

Total = 50

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022


Donnacona Institution

Prisoners = 25

Staff = + 7

Total = 34

Sources: CBC News (21 July 2020| Radio-Canada (29 April 2021) | Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022)


Drummond Institution

Prisoners = 33

Staff = 2

Total = 35

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022CBC News (17 July 2020)


Federal Training Centre

Prisoners = 335 (multi | 1 dead on 3 May 2020) + 1 (minimum)

Staff = 34 

Total = 370

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)


Joliette Institution for Women

Prisoners = 58

Staff = 49

Total = 107 

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022| CBC News (17 July 2020)


La Macaza Institution

Prisoners = 33

Staff = 15

Total = 48

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022 | 30 December 2021


Port Cartier Institution

Prisoners = 15

Staff = 26

Total = 41

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)


Regional Mental Health Centre - Quebec Region

Prisoners = 35 

Staff = 4

Total = 39

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (15 April 2021 | 31 January 2022)


Regional Reception Centre - Quebec Region

Prisoners = 64

Staff = 1

Total = 65

Sources: CBC News (17 July 2020) | Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022


ONTARIO REGION

Prisoners = 362
Staff = 23

Total = 385


Bath Institution

Prisoners = 0

Staff = 1

Total = 1

Source: CBC News (28 July 2020)


Beaver Creek Institution

Prisoners = 1 (via Joyceville Institution) + 8

Staff = 

Total = 10

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)


Collins Bay Institution

Prisoners = 6 (medium via Joyceville Institution) + 1

Staff = 0

Total = 7

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022)


Grand Valley Institution for Women

Prisoners = 11

Staff = 3

Total = 14

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022)| CBC News (17 July 2020)


Joyceville Institution

Prisoners = 165 (medium)

Staff = 1 + 16

Total = 182

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020) | Global News (2 February 2021)


Millhaven Institution

Prisoners = 9 (maximum) + 3 (RTC)

Staff = 1

Total = 13

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | Kingston Whig-Standard (19 October 2020)


Warkworth Institution

Prisoners = 3 (medium via Joyceville Institution) + 155

Staff = 0

Total = 158

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022


PRAIRIE REGION

Prisoners = 1,206
Staff = 221

Total = 1,427


Stony Mountain Institution

Prisoners = 399 (medium | 1 dead on 27 December 2020) + 1 (minimum) 

Staff = 8 + 25 + 12 + 20

Total = 465

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022 | 30 December 2021) | Newstalk 610 CKTB (23 November 2020) | CBC News (21 February 2021) | Global News (4 January 2022)


Regional Psychiatric Centre

Prisoners = 3

Staff = 0

Total = 3

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022)


Saskatchewan Penitentiary

Prisoners = 8 (maximum) + 296 (medium | 1 dead on 8 January 2021

Staff = 1 + 14 + 10 + 7

Total = 336

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | Saskatoon Star Phoenix (6 October 2020) | CTV News (24 December 2020) | Saskatoon Star Phoenix (30 December 2021)


Willow Cree Healing Centre

Prisoners = 8 (1 dead on 25 January 2021)

Staff = 2

Total = 10

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | Global News (31 December 2020)


Bowden Institution

Prisoners = 77 (1 dead on 12 May 2021)

Staff = 3 + 10

Total = 90

Sources: CTV News (30 October 2020) | Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022 | 25 October 2021)


Drumheller Institution

Prisoners = 349

Staff = 2 + 20 + 41 + 6

Total = 418

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022 | 30 December 2021) | Calgary Herald (31 October 2020) | CTV News (10 March 2021) | Calgary Herald (4 January 2022)


Edmonton Institution

Prisoners = 27

Staff = + 2 + 27

Total = 63

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CTV News (21 November 2020) | CTV News (8 May 2021) | CTV News (28 January 2022)


Edmonton Institution for Women

Prisoners = 30

Staff = 1

Total = 31

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | Edmonton Journal (24 November 2020)


Grande Cache Institution

Prisoners = 8

Staff = 0

Total = 8

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022)


Pê Sâkâstêw Centre

Prisoners = 0

Staff =3

Total = 3

Source: Calgary Herald (31 October 2020


PACIFIC REGION

Prisoners = 363
Staff = 131

Total = 494

Fraser Valley Institution for Women

Prisoners = 

Staff = 1 

Total = 5

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)


Kent Institution

Prisoners = 100

Staff = 10 + 18 + 33

Total = 161

Sources: Abbotsford News (25 October 2021) | Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CityNews (31 December 2021 | 7 January 2022)


Kwìkwèxwelhp Healing Lodge

Prisoners = 10

Staff = 0

Total = 10

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022)


Matsqui Institution

Prisoners = 65

Staff = 1 + 33

Total = 99

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | News 1130 (10 September 2020) | CityNews Vancouver (20 January 2022)


Mission Institution

Prisoners = 120 (medium | 1 dead on 15 April 2020)

Staff = 12 + 2 + 2 + 19

Total = 155

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020) | Daily Hive News Vancouver (16 September 2020) | CTV News (19 November 2020) | Abbotsford News (23 January 2022)


Mountain Institution

Prisoners = 1

Staff = 0

Total = 1

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022


Pacific Institution

Prisoners = 61

Staff = 0

Total = 61

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022


Regional Treatment Centre

Prisoners = 2

Staff = 0

Total = 2

Source: Correctional Service Canada (31 January 2022


UNKNOWN INSTITUTIONS AND REGIONS

Staff = 566 (minus 256 cases compiled by the Prison Pandemic Partnership prior to 10 March 2021 highlighted in green above) 

Total = 310

Source: Justin Ling (10 March 2021)


Staff = 248 (minus 100 cases compiled by the Prison Pandemic Partnership in December 2021 highlighted in light blue above) 

Total = 155

Source: Global News (31 December 2021)


Staff = 322 (minus 248 cases reported on 31 December 2021 by Global News directly above + 26 cases compiled by the Prison Pandemic Partnership the first week of January 2022 highlighted in light fushsia above) 

Total = 48

Source: Le Devoir (6 January 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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