The RCMP in Yellowknife have charged a Nunavut man with assaulting a peace officer after a corrections officer was attacked at the North Slave Correctional Complex (NSCC) last month.
Police state it happened mid-afternoon on May 28 and the male victim, whom they haven’t identified, went to Stanton Territorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
It’s not clear exactly where in the facility the assault took place or the motive behind it.
Jorden Charlie, 19, is to appear in a Yellowknife court on August 9.
It’s also not clear what he was in jail for in the first place.
Charlie remains in custody.