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

* Updated: 1 March 2022 at 3:10pm ET *

5,189 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Federal Penitentiaries Operated by Correctional Correctional Service Canada | CSC as of 28 February 2022 *

Prisoners = 3,489 (6 dead)

Staff = 1,700

Total = 5,189

* 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 = 173

Staff = 13

Total = 186

Nova Institution for Women 

Prisoners = 25

Staff = 0

Total = 25

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) 

Springhill Institution

Prisoners = 55

Staff = 0

Total = 55

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) 

Atlantic Institution

Prisoners = 6

Staff = 7

Total = 13

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022 | 30 December 2021) 

Dorchester Penitentiary  

Prisoners = 87 (medium)

Staff = 6

Total = 93

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CTV News (24 November 2021) 

QUEBEC REGION

Prisoners = 927

Staff = 145

Total = 1,072

Archambault Institution 

Prisoners = 82 (minimum) + 96 (medium)

Staff = 5

Total = 183

Sources: CBC News (21 July 2020) | Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022)

Cowansville Institution

Prisoners = 52

Staff = 0 

Total = 52

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) 

Donnacona Institution

Prisoners = 25

Staff  = 2 + 7

Total = 34

Sources: CBC News (21 July 2020) | Radio-Canada (29 April 2021) | Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022)

Drummond Institution

Prisoners = 38

Staff = 2

Total = 40

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)

Federal Training Centre

Prisoners = 340 (multi | 1 dead on 3 May 2020) + 1 (minimum)

Staff = 34 

Total = 375

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)

Joliette Institution for Women

Prisoners = 58

Staff = 49

Total = 107 

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)

La Macaza Institution

Prisoners = 34

Staff = 15

Total = 49

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022 | 30 December 2021) 

Port Cartier Institution

Prisoners = 66

Staff = 26

Total = 92

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)

Regional Mental Health Centre - Quebec Region

Prisoners = 46 

Staff = 4

Total = 50

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (15 April 2021 | 28 February 2022)

Regional Reception Centre - Quebec Region

Prisoners = 89

Staff = 1

Total = 90

Sources: CBC News (17 July 2020) | Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) 

ONTARIO REGION

Prisoners = 493

Staff = 23

Total = 516

Bath Institution

Prisoners = 0

Staff = 1

Total = 1

Source: CBC News (28 July 2020)

Beaver Creek Institution

Prisoners = 1 (via Joyceville Institution) + 54

Staff = 1

Total = 56

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)

Collins Bay Institution

Prisoners = 6 (medium via Joyceville Institution) + 2

Staff = 0

Total = 8

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022)

Grand Valley Institution for Women

Prisoners = 11

Staff = 3

Total = 14

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)

Joyceville Institution

Prisoners = 205 (medium)

Staff = 1 + 16

Total = 222

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020) | Global News (2 February 2021)

Millhaven Institution

Prisoners = 42 (maximum) + 11 (RTC)

Staff = 1

Total = 54

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | Kingston Whig-Standard (19 October 2020)

Warkworth Institution

Prisoners = 3 (medium via Joyceville Institution) + 158

Staff = 0

Total = 161

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) 

PRAIRIE REGION

Prisoners = 1,507

Staff = 221

Total = 1,728

Stony Mountain Institution

Prisoners = 418 (medium | 1 dead on 27 December 2020) + 9 (minimum) 

Staff = 8 + 25 + 12 + 20

Total = 492

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022 | 30 December 2021) | Newstalk 610 CKTB (23 November 2020) | CBC News (21 February 2021) | Global News (4 January 2022)

Regional Psychiatric Centre

Prisoners = 15

Staff = 0

Total = 15

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022)

Saskatchewan Penitentiary

Prisoners = 8 (maximum) + 304 (medium | 1 dead on 8 January 2021) 

Staff = 1 + 14 + 10 + 7

Total = 344

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 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 (28 February 2022) | Global News (31 December 2020)

Bowden Institution

Prisoners = 136 (1 dead on 12 May 2021)

Staff = 3 + 10

Total = 149

Sources: CTV News (30 October 2020) | Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022 | 25 October 2021)

Drumheller Institution

Prisoners = 357

Staff = 2 + 20 + 41 + 6

Total = 426

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022 | 30 December 2021) | Calgary Herald (31 October 2020) | CTV News (10 March 2021) | Calgary Herald (4 January 2022)

Edmonton Institution

Prisoners = 108

Staff = 7 + 2 + 27

Total = 144

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

Edmonton Institution for Women

Prisoners = 42

Staff = 1

Total = 43

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | Edmonton Journal (24 November 2020)

Grande Cache Institution

Prisoners = 102

Staff = 0

Total = 102

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022)

Pê Sâkâstêw Centre

Prisoners = 0

Staff = 3

Total = 3

Source: Calgary Herald (31 October 2020) 

PACIFIC REGION

Prisoners = 389

Staff = 131

Total = 520

Fraser Valley Institution for Women

Prisoners = 4 

Staff = 1 

Total = 5

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CBC News (17 July 2020)

Kent Institution

Prisoners = 101

Staff = 10 + 18 + 33

Total = 162

Sources: Abbotsford News (25 October 2021) | Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) | CityNews (31 December 2021 | 7 January 2022)

Kwìkwèxwelhp Healing Lodge

Prisoners = 10

Staff = 0

Total = 10

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022)

Matsqui Institution

Prisoners = 82

Staff = 1 + 33

Total = 116

Sources: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 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 (28 February 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 = 2

Staff = 0

Total = 2

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) 

Pacific Institution

Prisoners = 61

Staff = 0

Total = 61

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) 

Regional Treatment Centre

Prisoners = 9

Staff = 0

Total = 9

Source: Correctional Service Canada (28 February 2022) 

UNKNOWN INSTITUTIONS AND REGIONS

Staff = 1,700 (minus 533 cases compiled by the Prison Pandemic Partnership noted above) 

Total = 1,167

Source: UCCO (28 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.