Lawmakers adopted a bill that will allow Anchorage to make improvements to Upper Canyon Road, which leads to Chugach State ...

A 62-year-old man imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward became Alaska’s most recent in-custody death late ...

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 ...

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.

of Alaska said Monday the state Department of Corrections and one of its contractors have been failing to protect confidential medical information for dozens of people over at least the last 10 ...

New data from the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) shows that almost every inmate held at the state’s largest prison has contracted the coronavirus since the pandemic hit the facility in ...

The names of 22 Southeast Alaska law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty were read aloud as those serving today ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An audit of the Alaska Department of Corrections has identified systemic problems, including an inadequate mechanism for reviewing inmate deaths and factors that could affect ...

The ACLU of Alaska sued the state Department of Corrections on Thursday, accusing it of denying some incarcerated people access to transitional programs by improperly interpreting their release dates.

Some officials believe an Alaska Department of Corrections plan to send inmates to prisons in the Lower 48 states could transform them into hardened criminals in a process that has been called ...

Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sherrie Daigle said. The state medical examiner will determine the cause of death, Daigle said. Hansen was convicted in 1984 after confessing to ...