List of Alaska state prisons
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.Facilities
in Alaska are as follows:Facilities
- Anchorage Correctional Complex, Anchorage, including:
- * 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 Medium Security
- Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, Anchorage , the state's dedicated facility for female prisoners
- Ketchikan Correctional Center, Ketchikan
- Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau, both intake facility and prison
- Mat-Su Pretrial Facility, Palmer
- Palmer Medium and Minimum Correctional Centers, Palmer Scheduled for closing - Located in Sutton
- Spring Creek Correctional Center, Seward Maximum Security.
- Wildwood Correctional Center, near Kenai Medium Security.
- Wildwood Pretrial Facility, near Kenai All custody.
- Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center, Bethel
- Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm, Point MacKenzie
