Corrections policy is supposed to limit involuntary medication to emergency, last-resort situations when there is imminent danger.
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10 more COVID-19 cases reported in prisons across Alaska
The total number of infections now is under half of the total cases reported in the state’s corrections system earlier this month.
Prisons in Seward, Ketchikan and Eagle River go into lockdown as COVID-19 cases rise
Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward reported 21 general population cases Wednesday. In Eagle River, Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, a women’s prison, is two weeks into a lockdown and reported five cases. And in Southeast, Ketchikan Correctional Center reported 11 cases.
Feds charge white supremacist gang members in Alaska
Federal authorities in Alaska have filed criminal charges against a total of 18 people connected to a white supremacist gang.
Why prison drug treatment programs in Alaska ramped down at ‘exactly the wrong time’
State corrections officials closed or moved drug treatment programs it offered because of contracting issues just as lighter sentencing rules took effect that were supposed to be paired with more treatment.
Experimental Oasis project gives inmates ‘something different in prison’
The Department of Corrections is the largest mental health care provider in the state, and the administrators at Spring Creek Correctional Center want to make it one of the most effective, too. They’re treating inmates who have mental illnesses with new innovations — porches and paintings.