More than 50 people have been charged in connection with an international drug trafficking ring targeting Alaska communities, according to an announcement from federal authorities Thursday and nine ...

The prison contractor accused of displaying the confidential health information of dozens of Alaska inmates on a public website now says the names were real, but the diagnoses were fake. On Tuesday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Alaska prisons, the numbers of Alaska Native/American Indians are almost equal to the white population. (Photo/Will Mader, KTOO ...

For years, the Alaska Department of Corrections, or DOC, has faced difficult questions surrounding inmate deaths in our ...

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 ...

An Anchorage inmate died after two days in custody, the Alaska Department of Corrections reported Thursday. It is the seventh inmate death the department has reported this year. Tristan Andrews was ...

APPLETON -- Hopes that inmates from Alaska could fill empty beds at the Prairie Correctional Facility were dashed on Monday. The Alaska Department of Corrections did not select the facility to hold ...

Eighteen inmates have died in correctional centers in Alaska this year, making 2022 the deadliest year for inmates in Alaska. The average number of inmate deaths over the last 10 years is 11, with the ...

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 ...