Isabelle Robitaille, the CSC’s senior communications advisor, says in a statement: “It is expected that CSC will have completed its first phase of COVID-19 vaccinations in the next few days,” she writes. “CSC medical staff used guidance developed by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) to determine which inmates would be offered access to the vaccine.” Robitaille was unable to confirm how many inmates had received the vaccines in the Kingston region as of press time. She said those who had received their first dose would receive their second in the coming weeks. In Ontario, inmates at other institutions have also received the vaccine, including the Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst, Kitchener’s Grand Valley Institution for Women and the Warkworth Institution, located near Campellford.
Posted: Dec 20, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
The Joyceville Institution in Kingston, Ont., on Dec. 17, the day a COVID-19 outbreak affecting nearly 90 people inside was announced. Another seven inmates from the medium-security prison have contracted the virus since Thursday, according to the CSC’s website.(Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press)
Inmates at the Joyceville Institution in northeast Kingston, Ont., are calling on Correctional Service Canada (CSC) and the prison s warden to provide more information about the COVID-19 outbreak raging there.
As of Saturday, 95 inmates at the medium-security prison had tested positive for COVID-19, seven more than on Thursday. Four staff members have also tested positive, according to
Posted: Dec 20, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
The Joyceville Institution in Kingston, Ont., on Dec. 17, the day a COVID-19 outbreak affecting nearly 90 people inside was announced. Another seven inmates from the medium-security prison have contracted the virus since Thursday, according to the CSC’s website.(Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press)
Inmates at the Joyceville Institution in northeast Kingston, Ont., are calling on Correctional Service Canada (CSC) and the prison s warden to provide more information about the COVID-19 outbreak raging there.
As of Saturday, 95 inmates at the medium-security prison had tested positive for COVID-19, seven more than on Thursday. Four staff members have also tested positive, according to
Gravenhurst resident Daryl McCullough has been awarded the 2019 Taylor Award by Correctional Service Canada (CSC).
The Taylor Award was created in November 2001. It’s named after Dr. Charles and Charlotte Taylor of Wolfville, Nova Scotia in dedication of their years of faith-based counselling in correctional facilities. Dr. Taylor also contributed to the development of prison ministry education.
The award is handed out every year to someone who has shown exceptional dedication to volunteering with CSC.
McCullough has spent over 20 years working with inmates at the Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst. “I feel a massive amount of indebtedness to the people that have worked with me,” he tells the MyMuskokaNow.com newsroom. “They all deserve a piece of this award.”