US Edition22 incarcerated people died in correctional facilities in B.C. in 2025
The report says 22 people died in custody in 2025, with Pacific Institution in Abbotsford reporting eight deaths and unregulated toxic drugs tied to many accidents.
- A new Coroners Service report released Friday details 22 deaths of incarcerated people in correctional facilities during 2025, marking the first comprehensive accounting of custody deaths for the year.
- From Jan 2015 to Dec 2025, the Coroners Service documented 214 total deaths across provincial and federal correctional facilities, establishing a decade-long pattern of custody mortality.
- The 22 deaths in 2025 were split evenly between facility types, with 11 at each; Pacific Institution in Abbotsford reported eight deaths, while North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam reported five.
- Men accounted for all 2025 deaths, with Sixty-two per cent classified as natural, 22 per cent as accidental, and 12 per cent as suicides; 16 accidental deaths involved unregulated toxic drugs.
- The report excludes deaths at halfway houses, the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, and RCMP cells, limiting the scope to incarcerated people within provincial and federal correctional facilities only.
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22 incarcerated people died in correctional facilities in B.C. in 2025
Twenty-two people died in correctional facilities in B.C. in 2025. A new B.C. Coroners Service report, released Friday (April 24), details the deaths of incarcerated people in correctional facilities between Jan. 1, 2015 and Dec. 31, 2025. There were 214 deaths during that period. The deaths reported include incarcerated people transferred to hospital for medical treatment and deaths that occurred in sheriff’s vehicles during transportation to a…
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