ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker announced Monday that his office recently began an administrative review on the Alaska Department of Corrections to look for ways to improve department policies and ensure inmate safety. The review is being led by Dean Williams, former Superintendent of the McLaughlin Youth Center and Special Assistant to Governor Walker, and […]
The Department of Corrections informed the Alaska Bureau of Investigation of the death of one of their inmates at the Alaska Regional Hospital late Saturday afternoon. The investigation into the death of 74-year-old William J. Wilson of Anchorage was deemed death by natural causes. Wilson had been incarcerated since his conviction for Murder II in […]
The trooper dispatch reported on Wednesday that the State Medical Examiner’s office will perform an autopsy on the Anchorage inmate who died and was pronounced at 3:46 pm on Tuesday, May 13th at an Anchorage hospital. It was on May 5th that the Alaska Department of Corrections contacted the Alaska Bureau of Investigations to inform […]