On Tuesday, the Alaska House Community and Regional Affairs Committee was scheduled to hear a presentation by the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska about a record-breaking run of deaths in ...

A vast new prison facility 30 miles from Wasilla will eventually house all Alaska prisoners now being kept Outside. But questions about the Goose Creek Correctional Center's costs have cast a harsh ...

Inmates at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in 2018. (Will Mader/KTOO) A national prison research group that tracks inmate populations says American Indians and Alaska Natives, next to Black people ...

Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau, Alaska in June 2023. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The coffee was hot. The slide deck was cued up. And Jacqueline Shepherd, a prison investigator and intake attorney ...

May 19—A 62-year-old man imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward became Alaska's most recent in-custody death late last month. Alvin Lynn Archa Jr. died of a drug overdose, as ...

The entrance to the Anchorage Correctional Complex is seen on Aug. 29, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The Alaska Department of Corrections announced that 35 men arrested and detained by ...

A man who is serving a 20-year prison sentence can remain on Alaska’s ranked choice general election ballot in the race for the state’s only U.S. House seat, a judge ruled Tuesday.State Superior Court ...