Joyceville Institution near Kingston, Ont., is dealing with a serious COVID-19 outbreak, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) confirmed to CBC News Thursday. Currently, 80 inmates and four staff members at the medium-security prison have tested positive for the illness, CSC said in a statement. CSC also confirmed five positive COVID-19 cases at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston and three more at Warkworth Institution, about 130 kilometres to the west. He's been studying how correctional institutions have been responding to the pandemic and said Joyceville reporting an outbreak with 80 inmate cases shows too many people at the prison were interacting. Rob Finucan, regional president for the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers for Ontario, confirmed two of the staff members who tested positive were correctional officers.

Source: CBC News December 17, 2020 22:35 UTC