Gordon Michael Hansen claims the two officers ignored calls for help after the late inmate appeared to pass out in the back of the transfer van on Oct. 4, 2018. "The corrections officers ... [failed] to respond to continuous and repeated calls for help, thus not providing the proper assistance to Inmate Joseph, allowing him to die in the corrections van," reads a notice of civil claim filed on Monday. "Despite all the other inmates pounding on the walls and shouting, the corrections officers did not pull over to inquire about what was happening. The corrections officers' only response to the shouting and pounding was to slam on the brakes and make the inmates fall," the lawsuit said. The lawsuit said the corrections van "finally" stopped to check on the inmates after another 50 kilometres.

Source: CBC News June 24, 2020 13:00 UTC