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Former youth center superintendent named new Alaska corrections chief
By adn.com- Nathaniel Herz
Published: 01/29/2016

JUNEAU - Gov. Bill Walker announced Thursday that he’d appointed Dean Williams to lead the state’s corrections department, a move that comes a few months after Williams delivered a bombshell report on the department’s failures.

“He had an opportunity to look pretty deeply into the issues with corrections,” Walker said at a news conference Thursday morning. “And I believe he is by far the appropriate and best person to take this forward.”

Williams, a former superintendent of McLaughlin Youth Center in Anchorage, will replace interim commissioner Walt Monegan, who succeeded the previous commissioner, Ron Taylor, following the November release of the report written by Williams and retired FBI agent Joe Hanlon.

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