Print article Coronavirus cases continue to spread in Alaska’s correctional system, where more than half the state’s facilities are over capacity. State officials have tallied 72 active cases at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River, where female prisoners are housed, as of Friday. That’s up from three on Tuesday, according to Sarah Gallagher, spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Corrections. Those inmates had symptoms, Gallagher said. Facility-wide testing turned up another 66 inmates who tested positive for the virus. An outbreak is also growing at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. As of Friday, 190 inmates had active infections, according to state corrections data. Earlier this week, there were 112 active cases.
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Print article Two brothers were charged Thursday in an October shooting at a Spenard hotel that left an employee dead. Court documents in the case describe a woman being attacked and held against her will by one of the brothers at a Midtown Anchorage game store, a situation that later spilled into the hallways of the Chelsea Inn Hotel on Oct. 21 and ultimately ended with the death of 48-year-old Duane Fields, who worked at the hotel. Now, nearly two months later, brothers Jacob and Josiah Pouli are each facing a charge of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting.
Print article The largest Alaska outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic so far is unfolding right now, within the walls of a prison in the Mat-Su Borough. At Goose Creek Correctional Center, 708 inmates had active coronavirus infections as of Monday. Other jails face worsening outbreaks, too: 112 inmates at the Anchorage Correctional Complex and 68 in Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center have the virus. Statewide, 19 incarcerated people have been hospitalized during the pandemic. Three have died. With a limited supply of vaccines now arriving, a debate over when incarcerated people should receive the vaccine is playing out across the country and in Alaska. The question: Should prisoners be seen as a vulnerable population living in a congregate setting and given priority access to the vaccine?