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There are 14 state correction institutions in Alaska, and currently just over 4550 inmates state-wide. Alaska's prisons have been rated more favourably by the American Civil Liberties Union than jails in most other states. Despite this, Alaskan prisons are not without problems, and many inmates suffer from substance abuse and from over crowding. Some have been placed in a private facility in Arizona as a result, and a new correction facility is to be opened in Alaska in 2012 to deal with this problem. There also appears to be an issue of native Alaskans in prison; whereas natives make up just 18 per cent of the state's population, 36 per cent of inmates are Alaskan natives.
Alaska is one of a minority of states not allowing the death penalty, having abolished it in 1957. One reason for this was the apparent racism inherent in the use of capital punishment. VINE, the US information network for victims of crime, is active over the entire state, and the Department of Corrections has had a victim service unit put in place since 1998.
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17, May 2012 - Long Beach Former Buddhist priest from Stickney arrested in Alaska - Chicago Tribune
A former Buddhist Priest from Stickney Township was arrested in Alaska after officials issued an arrest warrant for the man who has ... was the Wat Buddhavipassana Temple located in Long Beach, California, Dart said. But sources told authorities ...
17, May 2012 - Long Beach Buddhist priest accused of sexual assault arrested - Sacramento Bee
was arrested in Alaska after officials issued an arrest warrant charging the man with sexually assaulting ... he had last been at the Wat Buddhavipassana Temple in Long Beach, Calif., Dart said. But sources told authorities that he had since ...
17, May 2012 - Fairbanks Trial of three Alaska Peacemaker Militia members begins - McClatchy
The trial of three Fairbanks militia members opened in U.S. District ... listed the weapons and weapon components seized from the three men when they were arrested 14 months ago -- 30,000 rounds of ammunition, black powder, machine guns, pistols ...
17, May 2012 - Wasilla No injuries, damage after quake in Anchorage area - KTVL
Alec Medbery with the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center says there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Anchorage residents, as well as those from Palmer, Wasilla ... Oregon's answer to crime at ktvl.com. Find a police report ...
17, May 2012 - Fairbanks Alaska Militia Trial Opens With Former Defendant as Key Witness - Southern Poverty Law Center
Anderson, who was arrested with Cox and co-defendants Lonnie ... like himself should be ready to kill if necessary. Cox, of Fairbanks, along with Barney, 37, of North Pole, Alaska, and Vernon, 56, of Salcha, are accused of conspiracy to kill ...
16, May 2012 - Alaska airman arrested in other airman's disappearance - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska-based airman charged with felony evidence ... The case will be assigned to public defender, although Thomas, handcuffed and clad in yellow prison garb at the brief jail courtroom appearance, told the judge that his family ...
16, May 2012 - Sitka Buddhist priest arrested on sex assault charge - Abc Local Web
(WLS) -- A Buddhist priest accused of fathering a child with a teenage girl while he lived and worked at a temple in suburban Stickney has been arrested in Alaska. Camnong Bual Ubol was wanted for aggravated criminal sexual assault until his arrest on Friday.
16, May 2012 - Palmer Troopers arrest man pursued into Anchorage - MySanAntonio
PALMER, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say a 31-year ... toward downtown Anchorage but found it abandoned at Fifth Avenue and Cordova Street. They arrested Moore at the Sheraton Hotel. Troopers say he was carrying a small amount of methamphetamine.
16, May 2012 - Edna Drunk driver in fatal crash gets 45-day sentence - MySanAntonio
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A Nenana woman who pleaded guilty to driving drunk before a fatal crash has been sentenced to 45 days in jail. Edna Hancock, 57, was sentenced Tuesday in Fairbanks District Court. Assistant District Attorney David Buettner said ...
16, May 2012 - Alaska militia members spoke of hanging bodies from lamp posts: prosecutor - YAHOO!
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Three members of a pro-gun Alaska militia ... They face terms of up to life in prison if convicted of the most serious charges. Evidence of the plot and the illegal weapons acquired to carry it out lay in 100 hours of recorded ...
16, May 2012 - Boys and Girls Club Maintenance Worker Sentenced for Distributing Child Pornography - msnbc.com
Feliciano Villalba, 50 of Anchorage, was arrested last November ... did not harm or attempt to harm any children in Alaska. If Villalba violates his probation conditions, he could be sent to prison for another five years and upon his release ...
16, May 2012 - Kansas City Man Sentenced to 27 Years for Cocaine Trafficking
According to the U.S. Attorney's office, Riley was mailing packages of cocaine from Texas to Alaska since 2008.
16, May 2012 - Juneau Judge sentences Alaska shoplifter who threatened clerks - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
JUNEAU, Alaska - A Juneau man convicted of pulling a knife on grocery store employees after shoplifting has been sentenced to 50 days in jail. The Juneau Empire (http://bit.ly/KFD6p6 ) reports 27-year-old Matthew Gilchrest pleaded guilty to assault and ...
16, May 2012 - Former Juneau police officer indicted on attempted murder charges
JUNEAU, Alaska — A grand jury has indicted a former Juneau Police Department lieutenant on 20 felony charges, including six counts of attempted murder of his former fellow officers. Troy Wilson, 4...
16, May 2012 - Former Alaska mayor pleads guilty to child porn charges - msnbc.com
ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - A former Alaska mayor who served on a school board and once ... which will likely see him spend the rest of his life in prison, said Lieutenant Joe White of the Ketchikan Police Department. Shay, who pleaded guilty at ...
16, May 2012 - 10 Savoonga men cited for sale of marine mammal parts
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Federal prosecutors have cited 10 St. Lawrence Island villagers for the illegal sale of raw walrus ivory and polar bear hides. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday that the S...
16, May 2012 - Anchorage Assembly approves money for Rollins cases
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Anchorage Assembly has approved hiring an outside law firm to defend the city against civil lawsuits connected to the case of a former police officer convicted of sexual ass...
16, May 2012 - Juneau Attorney: Claims about Young investigation 'false' - Juneau Empire
JUNEAU — An attorney for Alaska’s lone congressman on Monday demanded that ... The allegations were not enough to convince the FBI that Young could be convicted, and the matter was dropped in 2010. She also said that Dowd’s “focus ...
16, May 2012 - Edna Mexican hot potato over who controls prisons - Alaska Dispatch
More from GlobalPost: Latin America's push to 'legalize it' Policy analyst Edna Jaime ... of the Texas border at Laredo and under control of Los Zetas, has been raided twice by the police since January. That involved tearing apart his prison chapel and ...
16, May 2012 - Clinton James Koenig Arrested on Assault, DUI Charges - KTUU
James Koenig, the father of slain barista Samantha Koenig, was arrested early Tuesday morning on charges ... Koenig and Terry Reeves -- the father of murdered Senior Airman Clinton Reeves -- were leaving the Great Alaska Bush Co. at 631 E.
16, May 2012 - Eagle River Anchorage Police Look for Love Seat in Clinton Reeves Case - KTUU
His parents arrived in Alaska to help conduct a search for him, which ended Wednesday after a body found Tuesday in Eagle River was identified as that ... that the love seat is the same one arrested Airman James Thomas, 24, claimed to have ...
16, May 2012 - Slain airman's body found on Alaska roadside - YAHOO!
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Authorities are investigating the killing ... but we have not named him as a murder suspect," Anchorage Police Lieutenant Dave Parker said. Thomas remained in jail on Thursday. According to a charging document released on ...
16, May 2012 - Clinton DUI arrest for father of slain Alaska barista - Daily Tribune
Reeves was not arrested or accused of any crime. KTUU says Koenig offered his assistance to Reeves' parents when they flew to Anchorage to help search for their son, Clinton Reeves. Parker says Koenig denied threatening the doorman and refused to take a ...
16, May 2012 - Former Alaska mayor pleads guilty to child porn charges
ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - A former Alaska mayor who served on a school board and once received a "Citizen of the Year" award pleaded guilty on Monday to seven counts of possessing child pornography as part of a deal with prosecutors, police said. Jack Shay, 80, a well-known political figure in the small southeast Alaskan community of Ketchikan, was arrested in November after police said child ...
16, May 2012 - Juneau Southeast man found guilty of manslaughter may appeal - Anchorage Daily News
Ronald O'Neil and Tracy Simpson, both from the Southeast Alaska community of Port Protection ... The jury found evidence insufficient for the second-degree murder conviction sought by the state but found O'Neil guilty of reckless manslaughter.
16, May 2012 - Bar bouncer no stranger to dark side
Riley was sentenced in federal court to 27 years in prison for possession of cocaine with an intent to distribute. Riley, a resident of Kansas City, Mo., was arrested in 2009 after a short stakeout of his Anchorage ... him as an Alaska drug trafficker.
16, May 2012 - Clint Child pornographer sentenced to 7 years in prison - MySanAntonio
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 50-year-old Anchorage man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his conviction on child pornography charges. Assistant attorney General Clint Campion in an announcement says Villalba was arrested in November during an ...
16, May 2012 - Juneau Judge sentences Alaska shoplifter who threatened clerks
JUNEAU, Alaska - A Juneau man convicted of pulling a knife on grocery store employees after shoplifting has been sentenced to 50 days in jail. The Juneau Empire (http://bit.ly/KFD6p6 ) reports 27-...
16, May 2012 - Eagle River Missing Elmendorf Airman found dead; fellow Airman arrested - AF.mil
... announced May 10 that the body found earlier this week in Eagle River, north of Anchorage, Alaska, is that of missing Senior Airman Clinton Reeves. A fellow Airman was arrested and charged with six felony counts of tampering with evidence in the case.
16, May 2012 - Attorney general alleges e-book conspiracy - South Coast Today
Massachusetts was joined in today’s enforcement action by Texas, Connecticut, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, the District ... Attorney General, and Helen Hood, paralegal, in Coakley’s Antitrust Division, as well as ...
16, May 2012 - Former Buddhist priest charged after fathering child with suburban teen
A former Buddhist priest is being held in an Alaskan prison on charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault for fathering a child with a 15-year-old girl in west suburban Stickney Township, authorities said. Camnong Bual Ubol, 61, was a Buddhist priest who lived and worked at Wat Dhammaram Temple in Stickney Township when he fathered the child, the Cook County Sheriff’s office said. A paternity ...
16, May 2012 - Alaska militia members spoke of hanging bodies from lamp posts: prosecutor
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Three members of a pro-gun Alaska militia plotted to kidnap or kill two law enforcement officers for every militiaman arrested or killed, in tough talk that included discussion about hanging bodies from lamp posts, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday. Schaeffer Cox, a fixture in the Fairbanks political scene who founded the "Alaska Peacekeepers Militia," is on ...
16, May 2012 - MASSACHUSETTS JOINS MULTISTATE SUIT VS APPLE OVER PRICE-FIXING - Bloomberg
Massachusetts was joined in today's enforcement action by Texas, Connecticut, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, the District ... in Attorney General Martha Coakley's Antitrust Division, as well as William Matlack, Chief ...
16, May 2012 - Man charged with snatching, killing Alaska teenage barista
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An Anchorage construction contractor was indicted on Wednesday on charges of kidnapping a teenage barista from a drive-up Alaska coffee stand, killing her, and extracting ransom payments from her family after she was already dead. Israel Keyes, 34, was accused of murdering 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, whose body was found in early April in an ice-covered lake just ...
16, May 2012 - Fulton Houston lawyer on quest to find missing moon rocks - Macon Telegraph
"He's opening the jail cell door and walking through it ... The Alaska rock is now part of a court battle. The Missouri rock was found among boxes of things when former Gov. Kit Bond retired from the U.S. Senate. The late Libyan dictator ...
16, May 2012 - It’s Official: Texting While Driving Is Illegal in Alaska - Sitnews
(SitNews) - Legislation led by Representative Les Gara (D-Anchorage) and Representative Bill Thomas (R-Haines), Alaska’s strong anti-texting ... has been a fine or community service, but no jail time. That is consistent with prosecutions ...
15, May 2012 - Kodiak Anchorage residents on edge after two high-profile slayings
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two attention-grabbing murders in Alaska's largest city have left some residents more cautious even as police say Anchorage remains as safe as ever. Brittney Lynn and Kisa Hayw...
15, May 2012 - Onalaska Two arrested in Onalaska drug raid - WXOW TV-19
ONALASKA, Wisconsin (WXOW) - A large amount of drugs is seized in ... The apartment belonged to Kevin Jones and Shayla Hermanson, both of whom were arrested and charged with several drug offenses. Investigators discovered $13,000 in cash, 2.5 pounds ...
15, May 2012 - Kodiak High-profile Anchorage slayings boost public safety awareness in Alaska's largest city - Repub
was arrested in Texas about six weeks after the young woman's disappearance. Days before the JBER airman went missing, two men were shot to death at a Coast Guard communications station on Alaska's Kodiak Island, a case many Anchorage residents ...
15, May 2012 - Kodiak Part 1: Coast Guard murders haunt Alaska's rock - Alaska Dispatch
Nobody has been arrested, nor has a suspect been named. Rumors fill the vacuum. The FBI, the lead agency, has repeatedly told the press that the residents of Kodiak, all across Alaska, and the rest of the country, aren’t in danger from the unknown killer.
15, May 2012 - Georgetown A by-the-numbers look at Paul Ryan and the 'veepstakes' - McClatchy
Since 1984, vice presidential candidates have hailed from Delaware, Alaska, North Carolina, Wyoming, Connecticut, Tennessee, New York, Indiana and Texas ... 76: Number of people arrested at the Cannon House Office Building Tuesday protesting ...
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