The family of a Dorchester woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the state, Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and several guards over her death while at the Suffolk County jail, where she was waiting to be transported to a court-ordered alcohol treatment program.

Ayesha Marie Johnson, 35, died at the South Bay House of Correction in 2021, less than two hours after she was taken there because a judge at Boston Municipal Court involuntarily committed her into treatment for alcoholism under a state law known as Section 35, according to the complaint filed on July 23 at Suffolk Superior Court.

Johnson had vomited while at court, and was dry heaving during the ride from court to the jail, but the corrections officers never checked on her while she was being held in booking, according to the complaint.

She fell to the floor at 3:23 p.m., and the officers allegedly never moved to help her, the complaint contends. More than an hour later, at 4:28 p.m., a guard walked into the cell, “kicked Ms. Johnson’s left thigh with his foot and grabbed and shook her left foot,” according to the complaint.

He then radioed for help, though the complaint alleges he did not try and perform any life-saving measures on his own. Chest compressions were started at 4:33 p.m., the filing states.

By 5 p.m. that day, Johnson was declared dead.