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...Two men being held at state-operated jails in Anchorage killed themselves in separate incidents this week, Corrections Department officials said. Terrence Thompson, 30, was found hanging early Wednesday morning in his cell at Cook Inlet...
...levelheaded with a talent for using words, not brawn, to keep order, said Doug Lloyd, training supervisor for the Corrections Department. ''The best use-of-force tool is between your nose and chin,'' Lloyd tells trainees. Inmates are less...
...below. PRISONS: --A natural-gas-line explosion at Cedar Creek Corrections Center near Olympia injured two Corrections Department workers who had been resetting the line's earthquake valve after problems arose with a gas-fired boiler at...
...considering a budget that trims about $8.3 million from Democrat Gov. Tony Knowles' request for the state's corrections department. Corrections would receive $149.3 million under the GOP plan, not yet approved by the committee, according...
...cost of $138 per prisoner per day. ''I think we're saving $15 million,'' Rokeberg said. Knuth of the Corrections Department has said language stating that the Legislature intends to spend no more than $89 to $91 a day on the Whittier...
...He worked for the Phillips County Sheriffs Department until moving to Alaska in 2002 to work for the State Corrections Department. He moved back to Montana in January of this year to be closer to his family. "He was a noted taxidermist...