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Opinion: Can you punish people out of addiction?
People are understandably sick and tired of being victimized by addicts who stop at nothing for their next…
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Lawmakers consider crime in runup to November election
Lawmakers and Alaskans frustrated by rising crime rates gathered in Anchorage Saturday for an extended forum to vent…
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Mead prepares for jump from attorney to judge
When she was 25, Amy Mead was living in Boston, working at the Hard Rock Café and wondering…
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Report: Wiretaps netted four murder indictments in 2017
Police and prosecutors conducted four wiretaps in Alaska last year, work that resulted in the indictments of multiple…
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Delayed report reveals three state wiretaps in 2015
The Alaska Department of Law has revealed that police and prosecutors conducted three wiretaps in 2015 as part…
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Walker selects Kotzebue man for vacant Alaska House seat
Hours before the deadline set by state law, Gov. Bill Walker selected John Agnaqluk Lincoln for a vacant…
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Quiet wires: Alaska illegally fails to report its wiretaps to public
The Alaska Department of Law is failing to disclose when it taps the phone of an Alaskans, the…
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Rural Alaska faces critical shortage of law-enforcement officers
The head of Southeast Alaska’s Village Public Safety Officer program said Thursday that he believes a public safety…
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Goodbye bail: Alaska switches to new system of criminal justice
On a gray day in November, many of Juneau’s top lawyers gathered in a jury room within Dimond…
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Budget cuts hit prosecutors hard
This is a part of a continuing series examining the effects of budget cuts to state services. To…
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Senate approves criminal justice reform bill, adjourns special session
Despite warnings from some of the state’s top legal minds, the Alaska Senate on Friday approved a constitutionally…
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Legal analysis finds big problem with SB 54
After a weeklong whirlwind of amendments, Senate Bill 54 is in the hands of the lawyers — and…
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House votes to partially roll back Senate Bill 91
The Alaska House of Representatives has voted to roll back the controversial criminal justice measure Senate Bill 91,…
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Alaska State Troopers investigate man who threatened lawmakers for ‘coddling the guilty’
House floor debates over Senate Bill 54 enter their fourth day today after a tumultuous weekend that saw…
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Alaska House starts voting on rollback of criminal justice reform
As voting began Saturday morning on floor amendments to Senate Bill 54, members of the Alaska House of…
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Lawmakers amend SB 54 as measure nears House floor vote
Stealing a new iPhone may land someone in jail for felony theft if a new version of Senate…
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Cost of criminal justice rollback is big unknown
As the Alaska House of Representatives advances toward a vote on Senate Bill 54, lawmakers are missing one…
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Walker asks for balanced budget as tool to fight crime
Gov. Bill Walker called the Alaska Legislature into its fourth special session of the year and put taxes…
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House Judiciary Committee calls for tougher jail sentences, but costs will rise
Senate Bill 54 is advancing in the Alaska House of Representatives. Late Thursday night, the House Judiciary Committee…
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From across Alaska, residents try to sway Legislature on SB 54
The calls came from Bethel, Nome and Fairbanks. There were plenty from Anchorage and the Mat-Su, and some…