Provincial officials are denying the government and the Brandon Correctional Centre were negligent in the lead-up to a brutal, fatal beating of an inmate by other prisoners last September.

Collin Kempthorne, 44, was attacked by other inmates in the Brandon Correctional Centre at about 10 p.m. on Sept. 26, 2024. He died of his injuries on Nov. 11, after doctors discovered he had little to no brain activity when he woke from a coma in October.

His family filed a lawsuit in the Court of King’s Bench in July over his death, naming the correctional centre, the provincial government and the attorney general, as well as the three inmates charged in Kempthorne’s death, as defendants.

The court papers claim jail staff were negligent and contributed to Kempthorne’s death and that provincial offic

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