COVID-19 Prisons

• Calls grow for inmate releases as COVID-19 cases climb in Canada’s jails and prisons

  Correctional Service Canada has reported outbreaks at 16 federal prisons since the beginning of December 2021, when the Omicron variant first took hold in the country.

  Health

  Jan 4, 2022
  
• Visits suspended at federal prisons in Quebec to prevent potential COVID-19 spread

  The Correctional Service of Canada says it is suspending visits to federal prisons in Quebec to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19.

  Health

  Sep 27, 2020
  
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• Inmate at B.C. prison says response to massive COVID-19 outbreak was ‘not nice at all’

  The inmate said weeks went by before adequate testing, meals and shower schedules were implemented at Mission Institution, where 120 inmates and a dozen employees were infected.

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  Jun 17, 2020
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• Guards, inmates worry about possible violence after coronavirus lockdown

  COVID-19 has swept through several federal prisons, with the worst outbreak occurring in B.C.'s Mission Institution.

  Health

  Jun 6, 2020
• Coronavirus: Calls to release some federal inmates grow as virus spreads

  Prisons need to step up COVID-19 testing and sanitary measures to help prevent mass outbreaks among incarcerated populations, as well as release some offenders immediately, urged more groups Saturday, as case loads grew at several institutions.

  Canada

  Apr 18, 2020
• Two dozen inmates at Warkworth Institution test negative for coronavirus, CSC says

  Since March 16, federal correctional facilities in Ontario have decreased their inmate population by nearly 2,000.

  Canada

  Apr 9, 2020
• Judges release growing number accused of violent crimes due to COVID-19 fears

  Canadian judges are increasingly citing the new coronavirus in their decisions to release detainees accused of serious crimes.

  Canada

  Apr 8, 2020
• Inmate advocates warn of COVID-19 spread in Canada’s correctional facilities

  Advocates across Canada are calling for the release of non-violent offenders and a unified plan to deal with the health and safety of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Health

  Mar 26, 2020