Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Robert Lawrence, Alaska chief medical officer (left), Travis Welch, director of corrections health and rehabilitation services ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 29—An Alaska correctional officer arrested this week faces numerous charges accusing him of bringing illegal drugs into the ...

During a Friday hearing, the head of Alaska’s Department of Corrections acknowledged “bumps in the road” as an Anchorage facility recently accepted around 40 immigration detainees from outside the ...

An Alaska man will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering his wife and daughter. Jalonni Blackshear, 43, has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for killing his wife, Raechyl Blackshear, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A judge has ruled that a prison in Alaska needs to provide meals that ...

The Alaska Department of Corrections says a 69-year-old man died in its custody on Sunday at Goose Creek Correctional Center in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Paul Allen Harris is the 16th person to ...

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 change ...

The Alaska Department of Corrections is broken. There's no question about that. I know this firsthand because I was a correctional officer for 11 years, and only recently left the job. However, the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska – Muslim inmates are suing state corrections officials, arguing that they are not provided adequate nourishment as they break their daily fasts during Ramadan at an Alaska jail. 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. There ...