List of Alaska state prisons

Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska.

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.

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.

State prisons in Alaska are as follows:

• Anchorage Correctional Complex, Anchorage
  • 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
• Fairbanks Correctional Center, Fairbanks
• Goose Creek Correctional Center, Point MacKenzie, between Anchorage and Wasilla
• Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, Anchorage (Eagle River)
  • The state's dedicated facility for female prisoners^[1]
• Ketchikan Correctional Center, Ketchikan
• Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau
  • It has long-term male prisoners and also serves as an intake facility^[2]
• Mat-Su Pretrial Facility, Palmer
• Palmer Medium Correctional Center, Palmer
• Palmer Minimum Correctional Center, Palmer
• Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm, Point MacKenzie, between Anchorage and Wasilla
• Spring Creek Correctional Center, Seward
• Wildwood Correctional Center, near Kenai
• Wildwood Pretrial Facility, near Kenai
• Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center, Bethel

See also

• List of law enforcement agencies in Alaska
• List of United States state correction agencies
• List of U.S. state prisons
• Prison

References

1. "Hiland Mountain Correctional Center" (Archive). Alaska Department of Corrections. Retrieved on December 13, 2015.
2. "Lemon Creek Correctional Center" (Archive). Alaska Department of Corrections. Retrieved on December 13, 2015.

External links

• Alaska Department of Corrections