An inmate at Stony Mountain Institution in Manitoba has died from COVID-19, the Correctional Service of Canada announced on Monday. Officials have not released the name or age of the inmate, who died in hospital on Dec. 27. This marks the first COVID-19 death of an inmate linked to an outbreak at a Manitoba correctional facility, and the third federally sentenced inmate in Canada to die due to the virus since the start of the pandemic. The Stony Mountain Institution outbreak is the largest in a Manitoba prison, with 316 inmate infections and 33 staff infections as of Dec. 24. There have been nine outbreaks in Manitoba correctional facilities, leading to 834 total infections — 144 staff and 690 "non-staff."

Source: CBC News December 28, 2020 20:03 UTC