Reported COVID-19 Cases Among People Imprisoned in Ontario Provincial Jails in 2022

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

End-January 2022

- 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.