The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alaska, with the ACLU National Prison Project, filed a class action lawsuit today against the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) challenging DOC’s inadequate, dangerous, and inhumane health care system. The federal court lawsuit, brought on behalf of incarcerated Alaskans, contends that the state’s failure to provide adequate health care is a violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and has resulted in needless suffering, decline, and death.
A years-long investigation into the inadequate physical, dental, and mental health care for thousands of incarcerated Alaskans demonstrates a critical need to fix DOC’s health care system immediately.
