COVID-19 Cases Linked to Territorial Jails and Prisons in Canada (end-February 2022)

 * Updated 27 February 2022 at 2:35pm ET *

117 Reported COVID-19 Cases Linked to Territorial Jails and Prisons in Canada as of the end of February 2022 *

Prisoners = 51

Staff =  15

Unknown = 51

Total = 117

* Data based on figures made publicly available through media reporting. Due a lack of proactive disclosure by territorial governments in Canada and the quality of the data available, it is possible that there are additional laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst territorial prisoners and prison staff in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon that have not been publicly reported. 

Nunavut

Prisoners = 44

Staff =  15

Unknown = 50

Total = 109

Aaqqigiarvik Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 30

Staff = 15

Unknown = 42

Total = 87

Source: Nunatsiaq News (1 February 2022) | Nunavut News (15 February 2022)

Baffin Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 14 (minus 3 transferred from the Makigiarvik Correctional Centre)

Staff = 0

Total = 11

Sources: Radio-Canada (16 June 2021)

Makigiarvik Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 3

Staff = 0

Total = 3

Sources: Nunatsiaq News (30 April 2021)

Rankin Inlet Healing Facility

Prisoners = 0

Staff = 0

Unknown = 2 + 2

Total = 4

Sources: Nunatsiaq News (15 February 2022) 

Nunavut Women Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 0

Staff = 0

Unknown = 2 + 2

Total = 4

Sources: Nunatsiaq News (15 February 2022) | Nunavut News (15 February 2022)

Northwest Territories

Prisoners = 0

Staff =  0

Unknown = 1

Total = 1

Fort Smith Correctional Complex

Prisoners = unspecified

Staff = unspecified

Total = unspecified

Source: CBC News (14 February 2022)

North Slave Correctional Complex

Prisoners = 0 + unspecified

Staff = 0 + unspecified

Unknown = 1

Total = 1 + unspecified

Sources: Cabin Radio (31 August 2021) | CBC News (14 February 2022)

Yukon

Prisoners = 7

Staff =  0

Total = 7

Yukon Correctional Centre

Prisoners = 4 + 3

Staff = 0

Total = 7

Sources: CBC News (9 July 2021) | Radio-Canada (13 December 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.