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 […]
ANCHORAGE – A correctional officer at Goose Creek Correctional Center (GCCC) pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bribery charges for smuggling contraband into the prison in Wasilla, Alaska. According to court documents, Angela Lincoln, 43, was a correctional officer at the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) facility from 2014 through mid-2020. Beginning in about 2019 she […]
A report of an overdue four-wheeler driver in Thorne Bay was called into the troopers on Sunday evening after he failed to return after going out for a rider. 28-year-old Chris Cahoon had gone out riding on Sunday and failed to return to the Goose Creek Subdivision and at 4:20 pm, that fact was called […]
Inmate, 31-year-old Joshua Jacob Reed, a four-time felon with 14 prior convictions, was sentenced on Thursday in federal court on his conviction of attempting to smuggle drugs into the Mat-Su Pretrial Facility in Palmer in February 2017. Reed was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison. That sentence will be served following the completion of a current […]