More people are living out their final years in Alaska prisons — testing the balance between prison as punishment for serious crimes and the expensive realities of caring for infirm inmates.
In Alaska and across America, an aging population of incarcerated people tests the balance between prison as punishment for serious and violent crimes and the practical realities of caring for prisoners who are increasingly infirm. Some people at Goose Creek are so frail they can’t walk. In the prison yard, prisoners in yellow jumpsuits push their peers in wheelchairs.
Department of Corrections commissioner Jen Winkelman speaks during an interview at Goose Creek Correctional Center. to potentially release some of the most aged and ill prisoners who have beenThat means prisons like Goose Creek Correctional Center, a minimum- to medium-security facility in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, incarcerate more people who are too sick for the hard concrete cells and rigid schedules of prison life.
Walk around Alaska’s largest prison, Lawrence said, and you’ll step into areas that “feel a lot like a nursing home.” , a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Some of the people who originally went to prison under those tough-on-crime laws are still behind bars.Inmates walk to the dining hall during mealtime at Goose Creek Correctional Center.
A wheelchair-using inmate talks on the phone in the common area inside inside Delta Mod, the sober living mod at Goose Creek Correctional Center.
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