The Alaska House Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing June 20 on the use of Alaska Department of Corrections ...

Forty-two men were flown to Alaska on Monday for detainment after they were arrested outside of the state by Immigration and ...

An immigration attorney called the transfer “unusual” and said he hadn't seen anything like it in his decade as a lawyer in ...

Many details remained unclear, including at which of Alaska’s jails or prisons the detainees were located, under what ...

This symbol is inside of the Alaska Department of Corrections office on Sept. 7, 2022, in Douglas, Alaska. The Alaska Department of Corrections has reported three in-custody deaths in the month of ...

A yearlong, legislatively mandated performance review of the Alaska Department of Corrections found that the agency is "moderately effective" when conducting its primary functions of confining ...

Alaska Department of Corrections officials have unveiled a new policy governing prisoner deaths, weeks after increased scrutiny over the deaths of five inmates within three months. Prior to the ...

The Alaska Department of Corrections has had at least 67 people die in-custody of state prisons and jails since 2020, with at least 17 deaths reported as suicides, according to the department.

Anchorage, Alaska – Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska (ACLU) and the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) jointly announced a cooperative effort to reduce solitary confinement in ...

The Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) recently revoked an interim policy that banned alcoholic wine during religious ceremonies in the state's prison facilities. The department rescinded the ...

ANCHORAGE — An Alaska Department of Corrections officer suspected of a heroin-distribution plot at a state prison has been arrested on federal drug charges. Adam Jason Spindler, 32, was taken ...

Alaska’s Department of Corrections is feeling the same hiring pressures as law enforcement across the country and needs a wider applicant pool, Commissioner Jen Winkelman told the Police ...