At 4:23 pm on Saturday, the Department of Corrections contacted Alaska State Troopers and advised them that 37-year-old Stewart Erhart of Tanana had fled the Northstar Center and now was placed on escaped status. Two hours later, a commercial burglary was reported at the Water wagon along the Parks Highway. The building was forced […]
Legislation would make Alaska safe and invest resources locally ANCHORAGE – State lawmakers are pushing back against the Dunleavy Administration’s effort to send Alaska inmates to private prisons in the Lower 48. New legislation sponsored by Rep. Zack Fields (D-Anchorage) would remove the ability of the Department of Corrections commissioner to incarcerate prisoners in out-of-state […]
ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) partially fulfilled the ACLU of Alaska’s Oct. 24 public records request. The records provided show that several DOC facilities have been exceeding emergency capacity standards, compromising safety, sanitation, and rehabilitation. The information provided in the Nov. 5 response included the daily count of inmates, by facility and […]
Troopers report that an arrest warrant is pending against an inmate at the Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm after he left the minimum security Alaska Department of Corrections installation late Thursday night. The DOC facility at 13690 S. Guernsey Road in Wasilla reported that 59-year-old Brian Church walked away from the minimum security facility between […]