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| Dangerous and understaffed: Alaska prisons operate below minimum safety standards |
| By ktuu.com- Paula Dobbyn & Travis Khachatoorian |
| Published: 02/26/2016 |
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ANCHORAGE -- Alaska’s prisons are overcrowded, understaffed and dangerous. Those are some of the key findings from a new report on the state’s correctional institutions which has echoed the views of the Alaska Correctional Officers Association, the union representing more than 900 prison guards, as well as many criminal justice reform advocates. “I hope this is a call to action,” said Joshua Wilson, a union representative. “It should be a wake-up call to the Department of Corrections, to the state, to the governor, everyone, that our institutions are not safe.” Commissioned by former Department of Corrections (DOC) commissioner Ron Taylor,the report found that the state would need to hire more than 100 new staff to bring Alaska prisons up to minimum safety standards. More than half of the new positions would be correctional officers, with most of the remaining positions filled by nurses. The number of nurses currently working in “high-level care facilities such as the Anchorage Complex" is insufficient,” the report found. Read More. |
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