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The legislature devoted nearly four hours of committee time last week to needed oversight of the Department of Corrections (DOC), an agency with a nearly $400 million budget and population that is expected to keep growing.

I’ve spent half of a decade fighting a system that wanted to ignore me. The battle has been ugly and disheartening.

The settlement caps a significant First Amendment victory that vindicated the free speech rights of public employees.

Racism, the binary concept of good and bad, poor policy, and the idea that we will achieve different results by trying the same tired tactics has kept Alaskans from living in safer communities for too long.

On Wednesday, the ACLU of Alaska settled case against Governor Michael Dunleavy and former Chief of Staff Tuckerman Babcock.

City of Nome continues to treat Clarice ‘Bun’ Hardy with callous disregard.

A wife's story: For incarcerated Alaskans and their loved ones, COVID-19 has created many additional hardships, one of which is the ongoing suspension of contact visitation.

Nearly two years into pandemic, DOC continues to enforce restrictions on civil liberties of incarcerated people, fails on transparency

Eight months into the project, we fear that body cameras won’t live up to their promise and will become another tool in the police department’s arsenal to collect information on residents, evade accountability, and obfuscate how APD polices the city.