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List of Alaska state prisons

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List of Alaska state prisons

The state prison system in Alaska, comprising both pre-trial booking and long-term incarceration for sentenced prisoners, is a unified system run by the Alaska Department of Corrections. Prior to the establishment of the department during the early 1980s, corrections was a division of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. That department still operates juvenile correctional facilities through its Division of Juvenile Justice.

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There are no federal prisons located in the state of Alaska. Federal prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing are typically held in state facilities. Prisoners who have been sentenced are usually sent to FCI Sheridan, located in Sheridan, Oregon, to serve their sentences.

Facilities

State prisons in Alaska are as follows:

Facilities

  • Anchorage Correctional Complex, Anchorage (working capacity 850), including:
  • Anchorage Correctional Complex East, formerly known as Anchorage Jail
  • Anchorage Correctional Complex West, formerly known as Cook Inlet Pre-Trial
  • Anvil Mountain Correctional Center, Nome (capacity 115)
  • Fairbanks Correctional Center, Fairbanks (capacity 257)
  • Goose Creek Correctional Center, Point MacKenzie, between Anchorage and Wasilla
  • Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, Anchorage (Eagle River) (capacity 415), the state's dedicated facility for female prisoners
  • Ketchikan Correctional Center, Ketchikan (capacity 71)
  • Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau (capacity 248), both intake facility and prison
  • Mat-Su Pretrial Facility, Palmer (capacity 112)
  • Palmer Medium and Minimum Correctional Centers, Palmer (capacity 492) Scheduled for closing - Located in Sutton
  • Spring Creek Correctional Center, Seward
  • Wildwood Correctional Center, near Kenai
  • Wildwood Pretrial Facility, near Kenai
  • Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center, Bethel (capacity 195)

    • Closed

  • Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm, Point MacKenzie, between Anchorage and Wasilla (closed 2014)

    • References

    List of Alaska state prisons Wikipedia
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