Author of the article: Ian MacAlpine
Publishing date: Jan 12, 2021 • January 12, 2021 • 3 minute read
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Justin Piche, a prisoner rights advocate and associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, has statistics showing the rate of COVID-19 inside the walls at Correctional Service Canada institutions is five times higher among offenders than average rates of infection across Canada.
“When COVID-19 strikes behind the walls, it raises the risk to those in pen cities like Kingston. It’s in everyone’s interest for prisoners and prison staff to be vaccinated sooner than later, with the former getting prioritizing given their higher rates of transmission and risk for serious illness.”
Author of the article: Ian MacAlpine
Publishing date: Jan 12, 2021 • January 12, 2021 • 3 minute read
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Justin Piche, a prisoner rights advocate and associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, has statistics showing the rate of COVID-19 inside the walls at Correctional Service Canada institutions is five times higher among offenders than average rates of infection across Canada.
“When COVID-19 strikes behind the walls, it raises the risk to those in pen cities like Kingston. It’s in everyone’s interest for prisoners and prison staff to be vaccinated sooner than later, with the former getting prioritizing given their higher rates of transmission and risk for serious illness.”
Author of the article: Ian MacAlpine
Publishing date: Dec 29, 2020 • December 29, 2020 • 1 minute read
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Positive cases of COVID-19 among inmates at Joyceville Institution’s medium-security unit have risen to 127, according to Correctional Service Canada’s COVID-19 dashboard on Tuesday.
That’s an increase of 47 cases from the original 80 cases announced on Dec. 17. Eighty-one inmates have recovered, leaving 46 active cases.
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Joyceville has the fourth-highest reported cases of COVID-19 among CSC institutions, and the most in Ontario. Collins Bay Institution has reported eight positive cases, with three cases currently active.
Posted: Dec 16, 2020 12:18 PM CT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020
Melvis Owen was serving a sentence at Stony Mountain Institution when he died on Tuesday.(Justin Fraser/CBC)
An inmate has died at the federal Stony Mountain Institution in Manitoba, the Correctional Service of Canada announced Wednesday.
Melvis Owen died on Tuesday. The cause of death has not been disclosed. Any time that we have a death in custody, it is taken very, very seriously, acting deputy warden Bill Melnyk said. Any loss of life is a tragedy, and so we re taking this seriously and we ll continue to investigate and review the circumstances around this incident.