More than 50 people have been charged in connection with an international drug trafficking ring targeting Alaska communities, according to an announcement from federal authorities Thursday and nine ...

The prison contractor accused of displaying the confidential health information of dozens of Alaska inmates on a public website now says the names were real, but the diagnoses were fake. On Tuesday, ...

A national prison research group, which tracks inmate populations, says American Indians and Alaska Natives, next to Blacks, are vastly overrepresented in state prison systems nationwide, and Alaska ...

Three Southcentral Alaska inmates have died in state custody during the first half of January, just weeks into the year following 2023’s statewide total of 10 inmate deaths. Groff had been held since ...

An inmate at Alaska’s largest prison begged for medical help with a severe ear infection but was ignored for days until it turned into bacterial meningitis, killing him, a newly filed lawsuit against ...

An Anchorage inmate died after two days in custody, the Alaska Department of Corrections reported Thursday. It is the seventh inmate death the department has reported this year. Tristan Andrews was ...

APPLETON -- Hopes that inmates from Alaska could fill empty beds at the Prairie Correctional Facility were dashed on Monday. The Alaska Department of Corrections did not select the facility to hold ...

Heraclio Sanchez Rodriguez is accused of leading one of the largest drug trafficking networks in Alaskan history from a California prison cell. Last week, federal prosecutors indicted Justin Facey, a ...