Reported COVID-19 Cases Among People
Imprisoned in Ontario Provincial Jails:
March 2020 to End-December 2021 (21.5 months) versus 2022
End-December 2021
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 2,250 (34.6% of total)
End-December 2022
- New cases reported in 2022 = 4,260 (65.4% of total)
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 6,510
Reported COVID-19 Cases Among People Imprisoned
in Ontario Provincial Jails in 2022 by Month
- Newly reported = 1,754
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 4,004
End-February 2022
- Newly reported = 644
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 4,648
End-March 2022
- Newly reported = 267
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 4,915
End-April 2022
- Newly reported = 312
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 5,227
End-May 2022
- Newly reported = 188
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 5,415
End-June 2022
- Newly reported = 42
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 5,457
End-July 2022
- Newly reported = 85
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 5,542
End-August 2022
- Newly reported = 222
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 5,764
End-September 2022
- Newly reported = 199
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 5,963
End-October 2022
- Newly reported = 368
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 6,331
End-November 2022
- Newly reported = 108
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 6,442
End-December 2022
- Newly reported = 68
- Total reported since the beginning of the pandemic = 6,510
Total for 2022 = 4,260
RESEARCH PROJECT AND FUNDING
The preliminary findings above were 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.