Mission Institution

Mission Institution

Capacity	Medium: 324 Minimum: 216
Opened	April 1977
Street address	Medium: 8751 Stave Lake Street Minimum: 33737 Dewdney Trunk Road
City	Mission, British Columbia
Country	Canada

Mission Institution is a minimum and medium 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 6 living units, with that also accommodates inmates from neighboring [Mission Minimum Institution]. Mission Institution has several industries building, allowing inmates to be employed to build numerous products.

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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

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