ANCHORAGE – An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee held during June at an Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) facility has been hospitalized in Tacoma, Washington, with tuberculosis. The 35 individuals held at Anchorage Correctional Complex (ACC) were informed by ICE upon their return to Tacoma on June 30th that they were exposed to tuberculosis […]
Access to legal counsel, medical care, and punitive measures have been reported by federal detainees in the state facility ANCHORAGE — On Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alaska, with the ACLU National Prison Project and Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, sent the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC), U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
Lewis Jordan, Jr. died of bacterial meningitis after symptoms and pleas for help were deliberately ignored by DOC staff in 2023 ANCHORAGE – Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alaska, with Highlands Law Firm, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) for its role in the death […]
The decision does not prevent a notice-and-cure system from being established through the legislative process ANCHORAGE — On Friday, the Alaska Superior Court denied a motion filed on behalf of the League of Women Voters, Arctic Village Council, and two individual Alaskans who asserted that the state violated the due process rights of voters when […]