Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 9—Alaska's correctional facilities are holding 40 immigration detainees from Outside under a deal between the state and U.S.

Most of Alaska's in-custody suicide deaths of 2022 were people who had only been incarcerated a relatively short time while awaiting trials. Some were detoxing from drugs or had a history of addiction ...

Sep. 23—GOOSE CREEK CORRECTIONAL CENTER — A man slum in a chair in the infirmary, wearing gray sweatpants and covered with a thin blanket. He looks half-asleep. His mouth is open, and his skin has a ...

The private, legally protected medical information of 74 incarcerated people in Alaska was displayed on a publicly accessible website by a state Department of Corrections contractor, the ACLU of ...

The deaths of two men by suicide in Alaska prisons in the past year have prompted legal advocates to sue the state on their families’ behalf. The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska filed its ...

Amid a national immigration crackdown ordered by the Trump administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining far more people in Alaska than in previous years. While attorneys who ...

Three Southcentral Alaska inmates have died in state custody during the first half of January, just weeks into the year following 2023’s statewide total of 10 inmate deaths. Groff had been held since ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — 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.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The disposable razor that a confessed serial killer used in his suicide in an Alaska jail last December was mistakenly issued to him by a prison employee, state officials ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska’s correctional facilities are holding 40 immigration detainees from Outside under a deal between the state and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Alaska ...

Sep. 23—GOOSE CREEK CORRECTIONAL CENTER — A man slumps in a chair in the infirmary, wearing gray sweatpants and covered with a thin blanket. He looks half-asleep. His mouth is open, and his skin has a ...