Hey!! As I was going through and doing the prison profiles for your beautiful state it struck me that I have never heard anything about these prisons from anyone, not here and not in the news or anywhere. So, I ask you all - what is it like in Alaska - what are your prisons like - I know what the ADOC says, but what are they like for you? Tell me a funny story, sad story, what is visiting like? I hope to hear all of your stories - I look forward to getting to know you all.

Take care & Be strong-

Hey!! As I was going through and doing the prison profiles for your beautiful state it struck me that I have never heard anything about these prisons from anyone, not here and not in the news or anywhere. So, I ask you all - what is it like in Alaska - what are your prisons like - I know what the ADOC says, but what are they like for you? Tell me a funny story, sad story, what is visiting like? I hope to hear all of your stories - I look forward to getting to know you all.

Take care & Be strong- Never been to prison or know anyone in Alaska that has but did live there for 10 yrs,was married to an Alaska Native Indian,beiggest mistake i ever made due to we had 3 children and when I filed for divorce I found myself standing before the tribal counsel and screwed myself big time,turns out that a white parent of native children have no parental rights to they'er children,there is a federal law (ICWA) that is for the Native people only,the law is so white people cannot adopt native children but it also screws with a white parent,my kids are now 20,19 and 17,wish I had never moved there but I do miss the wildlife and the Northern lights during the summer,sorry for drumming on about my personal issue,know it's not wot ye were expecting but hopefully ye will hear from someone with a better attitude than mine.
Slainte,Irish:o

Hello My name is melissa ,And my hubby was at both the anchorage jail and pretrial a few times ......They can be completey rude at times....I had visit my hubby for the longest time so long i be came cool with some the co beacuse they same my face so much..When i was preg with our son who is now 11months old i went to visit him one day i had been there wait all day see him beacuse there just 4 visit room to his zone frist come frist services kinda thing.I got all the way upstair in the room with him and the co told me i had to go back down stairs beacuse my cloths were not met to the t.........i was so sad beening i was preg i had melt down well i went found the head guy and he let me go back up for the next visit time ..Anyways just let this out there they can be rude and treat like you are the inmate your self that is wrong........Glad to see a tread for alaska i be search on here and hit the right stop and one more thing that i hate is that the state alaska sends our inmates out of state my hubby got sent to az in march and it just upset me so hard that they can take our family away from us ............Like that ..Anyways thanks for listening...

Hi Melissa, welcome to PTO and the Alaska forum!! :)

Thanks For The Welcome..

Hello, I am just going on the Electronic monitoring program in Anchorage, I lived in Fairbanks, charged with a B.S. MICS 3rd (I know everyones innocent) sentenced to 2 Yrs w/1 suspended with 2 years Probation, for my first encounter with the "LAW".
Surrendered my freedom june 1st in FAI, stayed 14 days under Lockdown cause of the 06/06/2006 (666) Day appearently the Co's thought the end of the world was coming. then they moved me to Palmer Medium,Palmer Minimum,Point Mackenzie Correctional farm where all the veggies are grown for the prisons in the state, then to Anchorage Jail. I got alot to talk about, but time to blow in this Sobrietor thingy, the irony is ive not drank in 25 years if not longer. ( maybe 3 beers total a year at best) what a mess. glad to find this forum!

Hi and welcome to PTO and the Alaska forum, hermit825!! :)

I visit at Spring Creek in Seward Alaska every week and I used to visit at Anchorage Jail every day.
Anchorage jail West side sucks. You get locked in a room just like you are a prisoner. You have to call and stay on hold for at least an hour in hopes that you will be one of the people that get one of the 4 or 5 visiting rooms in your zone. You have to call to get a visit you cannot just show up. Even if there is open slots you cannot go in. They are super rude on that side. If you have to go to the bathroom, your visit is ended. You have to talk through a phone that usually doesn't work so you get to yell through the glass (very thick).
They automatically assume if you are there visiting you are a criminal.
Anchorage jail East is first come first serve. It is better than West but still bad.
Spring Creek in Seward has much better visits. No bathroom but they will take you up to go to the bathroom and not end your visit. They listen to every phone call that goes into that jail and read a lot into them. They make a lot of assumptions and you know what that does. Most of the CO's there are great.
The superintendent there is very helpful.
All of the prisons in Alaska treat the visitor like they are a criminal just because you are visiting someone that is. It is most degrading when you have never committed a crime in your life, never been to jail and would not consider ever doing anything to put yourself there. You just happen to be visiting someone that made a bad choice.

Hi there, welcome to PTO and the Alaska forum!! :)

wow,what happened to this board? Is anyone out there with a loved one in Alaska DOC ?

this is a ghost town or should i say ghost forum lol.i actually live in alaska but my husband is in cali.i do know a couple people in jail though and headed to prison proably seward,which compared to the cali prisons are very nice.

will the last person out of Alaska please turn off the lights?

sry ..a little abandonment of forum humor..

hello- anyone else in alaska? my boyfriend just started a 2 year sentence and is still waiting in the anchorage jail to be transfered somewhere. this entire experience had been so frustrating. last october he accidentally shot me, so as the "victim" I am having a lot of trouble visiting him. nothing really seem to make any sence in the criminal justice system up here!

how did he accidently shoot you? is that why he is going to prison for 2 years?? didn't they investigate it and see that it was a accident if it really was?is he being transferred up here or in the lower 48? seward is a pretty nice prison if it is up here..

he had a gun in his hand, got bumped with a chair and the gun accidentally went off. his bad, the gun never should have been out. but i know he never meant to have it pointed in my direction. if i was standing a few inches to the right, it would have missed me.
anyway, he got assault 2, reckless. the judge said even though he knows it was an accident, people need to know you still go to jail.
he was just transfered to palmer this am. hopefully i can visit him soon!

ahhh well palmer is even better...my brother was there several years ago,atleast its not a heavy duty prison,good for you guys..:)and if your in anchorage it is alot closer to drive back in forth.i used to drive to seward every weekend years ago,it sucked..i don't think it takes long at all to get on the visiting list,it takes along time in lower 48,but i always got on 1st day so hopefully you don' have any problems.

you are so right-i was praying he would end up in palmer. thank you so much for your posts. it is really great knowing i'm not the only one dealing with this kind of thing!

no problem..alaskans that are in prison should really appreciate being in alaska,my husband is in cali right now and it sucks bad for him..they are not good at all. i also have a friend that was in seward then got transferred to junuea now he is in az,he says it is alright i think the change is what he likes but i think anywhere is almost better than cali...glad your man is so close...:)

you are right about cali. my guy is from indio, ca and we were just talking about that the other day. best wishes for you and your husband!

hi there!
My sons dad is in and out of the alaska system..he just got out of seward and looks like he is heading back..it is so hard to watch him killing himself out there with drugs but he goes back out every time...he has donw about 5 years up here now.
In 2002 I did a year out at the womens prison out at hiland mountain..I was in a wreck drinking and driving and my son was with me....I got charged witha felony assault and got three years but only served one. Luckily my son was not injured bad..I got out in 2003 and got custody back of him and am finishing up 5 years probation with no violation! I have not had a drink since the day of the wreck! (thank god)
I know quite a few folks that I went through treatment with that are locked up ...
I hear that there is terrible overcrowding at the Anchorage Jail and that the ACLU is involved...
I do know quite alot about the institutions so feel free if you need me...!!
love north

thanks so much i really appriciate it. good job to you for staying sober! Anchorage jail is sooo overcrowded. my guy is out in palmer now. good luck to you and your sons dad-hope it gets better.

My loved one is in OR doing Fed time I wish he was doing his time here *smile*.... would be so much better to see him... Anyways 2 more out of 8 to go and he will be home again...

My loved one is in OR doing Fed time I wish he was doing his time here *smile*.... would be so much better to see him... Anyways 2 more out of 8 to go and he will be home again...

That sucks that he has to be so far away! Do you ever get to go visit him?

Hi all! My Brother-in-law started off at Palmer & then was moved to Seward once, back to Palmer & then to Anchorage once & back to Palmer. Now he is in Red Rock Correctional Center located in Eloy, AZ. This prison is considered both Alaskan & Hawiian, so I am lost as to where I am supposed to go for information. What a mess this is. He is probably going to spend the next 15 years there before moving to one of the Federal lock-ups in MA. He gets no early release or anything, as it is stated to be time served concurrent. We do still have family up in Alaska, in Wasilla. Thank you for any guidence concerning mainly mail that one might give me...:)

Hi Every one. How many of you have love one in prison in cali?

I have dealt a bit with the Anchorage JAil and now the Palmer Pre Trial facility. Anchorage JAil sucked (or at least one of the guards did...can u say bee-ahch???) I went daily for 69 days to the Anchorage Jail and it wasn't all that bad, ya had to be there at least 45 mins ahead of visitation, you had to have a valid id, and yeah ya had to walk (not ride the elevators) up 3 flights of stairs to the vistaion areas (3 per mod)...You can only visit once a day but more than one person can visit with you...in the first 24 hours you get to visit anytime in that 24 hours....
Now I am dealing with Palmer Pre-trial which is about the same....(PALMER COPS SUCK!!!!!grrrrrrrrrrr :angry: as they always harrass perps they know and never find anyone new ....)

Anyway my b/f's arresst came in August 2007 we had just left a bar (yeah he knew he was revoked shhh) and were at a stop sign. A cop drove by headed left of us so we drove behind him. He drove through 2 parking lights to come around behind us. He simply pulled us for the fact that he knew my b/f was revoked (yeah by the way here in Alaska that's all they need they can use visual recognition to pull you over even if you did nothing wrong...how's that for a nasty surprise...grrrr) :angry: ...anyway he passed 3 sobriety tests in the field before they made him blow a .1 (legal is .08). He was released 3 days later to me and another 3rd party but he onlly stayed clean about a week (he is a alcoholic with split personalities by the way :eek:)...anyway Thursday night I had to revoke his bond and have him arressted and we are still awaiting trial for last year's incident....his PD is bright and has been fighting his case well the DA's office was late int he Rule 45 (time) and our attorney filed a motion to sanction the DA's office for failure to produce evidence timely and they in turn uped my b/f's charge from misdomenor to felony. So we lost the Rule 45 thing but are now filing a motion for MAlicious Prosecution and again the DA's office is past his allotted response time....so that should be heard here in the next 2 weeks. If we win that then he gets bumped back down to misdomenor or the case gets thrown out.....(yeah good luck on that one...) anyway he faces a possible 5 years for his driving that night (he was driving cause I couldn't for once and he's not drank anything near his norm and it was only the first time he'd driven DUI since 2003 and his revocation was within 24 hours of being done...nice huh?
So anyway that's the Alaska court system for ya...it plain out sucks... :angry: hoping if he stays lengthy time he will be in PAlmer Correctional but don't know yet....

JAC's Kat
:angry:

I would like to hear about the conditions in each correctional center.

My time in Lemon Creek CC, 2003, was not all that bad after I was moved to the 'mod' from the dorm room. I base this comparison on 5 months in the federal detention center (Seatac), the federal transfer center (OKC), and 8 days in Cook Inlet Pretrial Anchorage.

Conditions:Lemon Creek (Juneau) 2003: poor library with limited access, no copier, one portable typewriter, legal work impossible, food good, outside rec regular, TV in each 2 man cell if you had money to pay cable rate and electricity charges, city taxes were illegally added to comissary bill
CIPT (2003): milk twice in 8 days; sleep in a plastic tub ('boat') on the floor in the way of 2 cellies, use toilet in front of picture window, outside exercise in small area 45 minutes a day. Shabby library. Phone use a joke.
Seatac- cold food, no outside exposure, segregation of groups, law library 1 hour a week, extensive lock downs, mail tampering, phone very limited.
Federal transfer center OKC: Three Conair trips shackled 11 hours, plane gate is direct into prison, processed (intake) took hours waiting in unventillated concrete rooms, food plastic, no useable TV, no outside area, the ultimate definition of warehoused humans.
The 40 other months I served was at 3 prison camps around the country. But I think this question is addressed to Alaska CC's.
What about Arizona's prisoner warehouse?

I am Mechele Linehan's mom. As most people are aware of my daughter was convicted of murder in a highly profiled trial held in Anchorage Oct. 2007. We are currently waiting for an appeal. I have felt very alone in this sad journey dispite a wonderful and loving support group of family and friends. I hope to find more people that are in this situation and help find solutions to problems our loved ones may be encountering as well as some solace and comfort for ourselves.

Welcome to PTO and the Alaska forum! :)

Hey everyone! I've been floating around the site for a couple of months now so I guess I should actually take a second to post here in the AK forum. My husband is currently at FCC and will be through at least late fall/early winter. After that we're at the mercy of DOC for the next 5-7 years. We're hoping for a transfer to either the Pt. Mac Farm or Wildwood at this point. He's currently classified as medium security so I know he's not eligible for Pt. Mac right now, but he'll likely be re-classified as minimum after the official sentencing. Any thoughts/stories/advice in regard to either of those places?

Welcome to PTO and the Alaska forum...glad to have you here! :)

I spent 16 years in the Alaska prison system. The last eight were in Arizona. I just got out April 25, 2007. I am still clean and sober. Working at the FoodBank of Alaska. I do not know if my intro was lost so here I am again. I updated my profile. Added pictures.

Welcome to the Alaska forum, Lecon! :)

My son's dad was in Anchorage Correctional Complex West awaiting trial... never got to visit him... but he told me they only had non-contact visits...