Mission Institution

{{Short description|Prison in British Columbia, Canada}}

{{Infobox prison|prison_name=Mission Institution|capacity=Medium: 324

Minimum: 216|opened=April 1977|location=|city=Mission, British Columbia|country=Canada|street-address=Medium: 8751 Stave Lake Street

Minimum: 33737 Dewdney Trunk Road}}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.

Correctional Service of Canada National Institutional Profiles, Retrieved March 31, 2010 from http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/facilit/institutprofiles/mission-eng.shtml

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.{{Cite news|last=Smart|first=Amy|date=May 3, 2020|title=B.C. rally calls for safe release of prisoners due to COVID-19 outbreak|work=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-rally-calls-for-safe-release-of-prisoners-due-to-covid-19-outbreak-1.5554114}}{{Cite web|title=COVID-19: First prisoner from Mission Institution dies from virus|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-first-inmate-from-mission-institution-dies-from-virus|website=Vancouver Sun|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-05-28}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Mobile unit set up to help treat COVID-19 patients from B.C.'s Mission Institution|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6818250/mission-instution-mobile-unit-coronavirus/|website=Global News|language=en|access-date=2020-05-28}}