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| Corrections union unhappy with new commissioner |
| By juneauempire.com- James Brooks |
| Published: 02/02/2016 |
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The members of the Alaska Correctional Officers Association say they’re unhappy with the governor’s choice of Dean Williams to run the state’s prisons, and that Williams manipulated information to blame corrections officers for problems within the prison system. The ACOA held a press conference Friday in Anchorage to outline its opposition to Williams and over the weekend provided additional information to the Empire. The union added that Williams “defamed” the officers and put their lives in danger because he did not obscure their faces in videos released to the public. The videos showed incidents where inmates died in DOC custody. In an interview with the Empire before the ACOA claims, Williams said he intends to begin his work in corrections (his first day was Monday) by building an internal affairs team to investigate complaints and problems. He also said he will eliminate the double-track command structure in Alaska’s prisons whereby not all officers within a prison report to that prison’s superintendent. Read More. |
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