Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control in Canadian Federal Penitentiaries 2000–01

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Infectious Diseases
Prevention and Control
in Canadian Federal
Penitentiaries 2000–01

RESULTS
The total incarcerated offender population under health surveillance was 12,681 as of December 31, 2000, and 12,755 as of December 31, 2001 (Table 1). This population includes all temporary detainees and provincial inmates held in federal penitentiaries.

The number of new admissions in 2001 (7,156 offenders) was comparable to the number in 2000 (7,106 offenders). Figures for both years include all new warrants of committal, exchanges of service, transfers from provincial and international prisons, other admissions and revocations.

The sections that follow discuss rates of inmate testing, infection and treatment for HIV, HCV, HBV and STDs.

Surveillance data were unavailable for federal inmates housed in provincial correctional facilities, such as those for women offenders in Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) Pacific Region. Thus, federal inmates in provincial institutions are not included in the following analyses.

Figures tabulated for women offenders include only those inmates housed in women’s institutions. Furthermore, since surveillance reports from institutions housing both men and women offenders do not differentiate data by gender, offender data from such institutions have been aggregated with tabulations for men. The small number of women in shared institutions is not believed to adversely skew figures for women or men offenders quoted in this report.

Table 1.
Distribution of incarcerated offenders under health surveillance in Canadian federal penitentiaries, year-end 2000 and 2001.

Region	2000		2001
	Number of inmates	Proportion of inmate population(%)	Number of inmates	Proportion of inmate population(%)
Atlantic
New admissions†	823	13,1	831	13,1
General population ‡	1 092	8,6	1 169	9,2
Ontario
New admissions	1 562	24,5	1 535	25,5
General population	3 338	26,3	3 423	26,8
Pacific
New admissions	791	10,4	853	10,7
General population	1 814	14,3	1 812	14,2
Prairie
New admissions	2 097	29,7	2 085	28,0
General population	3 080	24,3	3 010	23,6
Quebec
New admissions†	1 833	22,3	1 852	22,7
General population ‡	3 357	26,5	3 341	26,2
TOTAL
New admissions†	7 106		7 156
General population ‡	12 681		12 755

NOTES:
† The new admissions population represents cumulative admissions to CSC in a given year and includes all warrants of committal, transfers from foreign countries, revocations, exchanges of service, provincial transfers, and other admissions.
‡ The general population represents the total inmate count at year-end (December 31, 2000 and December 31, 2001).
This count includes temporary detainees and provincial offenders held in federal facilities.

Source: Correctional Service of Canada, Performance Management, 2002.