According to the ACLU, 18 people died in DOC custody last year, the most ever in a single year.
The deaths of two men by suicide in Alaska prisons in the past year have prompted legal advocates to sue the state on their families’ behalf.
“The state has a moral and a legal obligation to provide whatever care necessary to keep the thousands of people in Department of Corrections’ custody safe and healthy,” said Megan Edge, director of the ACLU of Alaska’s Prison Project. “And it became clear that they were failing to do so.”– are included as plaintiffs in separate lawsuits, with the ACLU and law firm Friedman Rubin representing Rider’s family and private attorney Vance Sanders representing Cook’s.
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