The deaths of two men by suicide in Alaska prisons in the past year have prompted legal advocates to sue the state on their families’ behalf. The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska filed its ...

Nora Brown says her daughter, Kitty Douglas, took this selfie in December of 2019 in Anchorage. She would have been 17 or just turned 18 years old at the time. Douglas had moved to Anchorage that ...

The Anchorage Daily News reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has sent 40 male immigration detainees to Alaska (“Under deal with ICE, Alaska jails are holding 40 immigration ...

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 ...

Amid a national immigration crackdown ordered by the Trump administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining far more people in Alaska than in previous years. While attorneys who ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska’s correctional facilities are holding 40 immigration detainees from Outside under a deal between the state and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Alaska ...

News-Miner opinion: Figures kept by private researchers and Bureau of Justice Statistics show that suicides continue to be a leading cause of total deaths in prison. The year 2022 saw the Alaska ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Guards were unable to save two prisoners from a weekend fire that broke out in a village jail because ...

Sep. 23—GOOSE CREEK CORRECTIONAL CENTER — A man slumps 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 ...