Mission Institution

Mission Institution is a minimum security federal institution within the Correctional Service of Canada and is located in Mission, British Columbia. It has a capacity of 540 inmates: 324 in medium security and 216 in minimum security. Mission Institution is broken up into 5 living units, with an additional 10 cell segregation unit that also accommodates inmates from neighboring Ferndale Institution. Mission Institution has several industries building, allowing inmates to be employed to build numerous products, including CORCAN furniture and restoring bicycles for the Bikes for Kids program.[1]

Mission Institution
CapacityMedium: 324
Minimum: 216
OpenedApril 1977
Street addressMedium: 8751 Stave Lake Street
Minimum: 33737 Dewdney Trunk Road
CityMission, British Columbia
CountryCanada

The institution was the site of a COVID-19 outbreak, where at least 133 inmates and staff had tested positive for the virus, with one death.[2][3] The Provincial Health Services Authority's Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) was set up in a secure area at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, in order to assist with controlling the outbreak.[4]

References
  1. Correctional Service of Canada National Institutional Profiles, Retrieved March 31, 2010 from http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/facilit/institutprofiles/mission-eng.shtml
  2. Smart, Amy (May 3, 2020). "B.C. rally calls for safe release of prisoners due to COVID-19 outbreak". CBC News.
  3. "COVID-19: First prisoner from Mission Institution dies from virus". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  4. "Mobile unit set up to help treat COVID-19 patients from B.C.'s Mission Institution". Global News. Retrieved 2020-05-28.

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