Alaska Department of Corrections

Law enforcement agency in Alaska, USA

Law enforcement agency

Alaska Department of Corrections

Abbreviation| ADOC
Agency overview
Formed| 3 January 1959
Annual budget| 313,152,000 USD
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction| Alaska, USA
Map of Alaska Department of Corrections's jurisdiction
General nature|

* Local civilian police

Operational structure
Headquarters| Anchorage, Alaska
Agency executive|

* Jen Winkelman, Commissioner

Website
doc.alaska.gov
Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward.

The Department of Corrections of the state of Alaska is an agency of the state government responsible for corrections. The department manages institutions, parole and probation. The current commissioner is Jen Winkelman.[1] The agency has its headquarters in the Douglas area of Juneau and offices in Anchorage.[2]

## History

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The State of Alaska assumed jurisdiction over its corrections on January 3, 1959. Prior to statehood, the Federal Bureau of Prisons had correctional jurisdiction over Alaska.[3]

As of 2005 Alaska kept more than 30% of its prisoners in private facilities out of state, most of them at the Florence Correctional Center in Florence, Arizona, owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America. These statistics left Alaska ranking #2 among states in percentage of its inmates in private prisons, and unlike New Mexico, the leader, many of the Alaskans were detainees awaiting trial.[4]

By 2009 Alaska had moved these prisoners from Florence to CCA's Red Rock Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona, and were moving them again, to the Hudson Correctional Facility in Hudson, Colorado, then under contract with prison operator Cornell Companies.[5] The opening of the new $240 million Goose Creek Correctional Center in July 2012 allowed the state to bring those prisoners back to Alaska.

## Facilities

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Main article: List of Alaska state prisons

## Fallen officers

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Since the establishment of the Alaska Department of Corrections, 1 officer has died in the line of duty.[6]

## See also

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* Alaska portal

* List of law enforcement agencies in Alaska
* List of United States state correction agencies

## References

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1. ^ "Office of the Commissioner". Archived from the original on 2009-08-20. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
2. ^ "Department of Corrections Home Page." Alaska Department of Corrections. Retrieved on December 7, 2009.
3. ^ "History of Lemon Creek Correctional Center" (Archive). Alaska Department of Corrections. Retrieved on December 13, 2015.
4. ^ Carroll, Tony (31 Oct 2005). "Many Alaska prison inmates still being sent thousands of miles away". Juneau Empire. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
5. ^ Holland, Megan (10 Aug 2009). "Alaska prisoners to move from Arizona to Colorado". Alaska Dispatch. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
6. ^ The Officer Down Memorial Page

## External links

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* Official website
* Alaska Department of Corrections (correct.state.ak.us) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

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Alaska Department of Corrections prisons

State prisons|

* Anchorage Correctional Complex
* Anvil Mountain Correctional Center
* Fairbanks Correctional Center
* Goose Creek Correctional Center
* Hiland Mountain Correctional Center (dedicated women's prison)
* Ketchikan Correctional Center
* Lemon Creek Correctional Center
* Mat-Su Pretrial Facility
* Palmer Medium and Minimum Correctional Centers
* Spring Creek Correctional Center
* Wildwood Correctional Complex
* Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center

Closed|

* Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm (closed 2014)

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Incarceration of adults in the United States

This template pertains only to agencies that handle sentenced felons (with sentences over 1-2 years). In many states, pre-trial detainees, persons convicted of misdemeanors, and felons sentenced under state law to less than one year are held in county jails instead of state prisons.

Federal Bureau of Prisons|

* United States federal prisons
* Federal Prison Industries

Corrections by States|

* Alabama
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* Indiana
* Iowa
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* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Tennessee
* Texas
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* Virginia
* Washington
* West Virginia
* Wisconsin
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Corrections by Federal district|

Felons: Federal Bureau of Prisons, Misdemeanants: District of Columbia (incarcerated long-term felons until year 2001)

Corrections by Insular areas|

* American Samoa
* Guam
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Puerto Rico
* U.S. Virgin Islands

Military prisons|

* United States military prisons
* Guantanamo Bay

State prisons|

* United States state prisons

See also|

* Civil confinement
* Immigration detention in the United States

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* VIAF

National|

* United States

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