In June 2025, ICE transferred a group of forty-one immigrants from the Lower 48 to Alaska to be held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex, a criminal jail, under federal civil immigration authority.
As documented through ACLU of Alaska interviews and sworn declarations from the impacted immigrants and their attorneys, as well as information obtained through public record requests, the experience of these individuals in ICE custody at ACC shows what happens when a civil legal process is routed through a punitive, opaque, and dangerous carceral system.
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