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Alaska Jails & Prisons

Every jail, prison and detention facility in Alaska — addresses, phone numbers, visiting rules, and the official inmate search for each one.

Browse Alaska facilities What do I do first?
34 facility records
13 ADOC institutions
14 county jails
20 counties with facilities

Alaska has 13 correctional institutions operated by Alaska Department of Corrections, plus 14 county and local jails. This directory lists 14 because it still carries institutions the agency is closing. How we count.

Where are they right now? Jails and prisons are not two separate worlds. They are points on one path, and searching the wrong one is why a name comes back with nothing.
  1. ArrestedTaken to the county jail for the county where the arrest happened — not where they live.
  2. County jailHeld here while the case runs. 1 local jail facilities in Alaska. Bail is set and posted here.
  3. Court and sentencingMost people leave from here. Only a sentence to state time moves someone into the prison system.
  4. Released, fined, or a county sentence — the path ends here for most people
  5. Reception centreWeeks, not days. They are scored, assessed and assigned. Expect little contact during this stage — this is the part families are least warned about.
  6. InstitutionPlaced at one of 13 institutions, at a security level set by their score — not by the worst thing the prison is allowed to hold.
  7. Release and supervisionThey report to a parole or probation office, which is rarely the city they were held in.
What is in this directory

Browse Alaska records by system.

Jails, state prisons, federal facilities, and ICE detention are run by different agencies under different rules. These groups are how we file the records — not official counts of what the state operates.

State prisons14 14 sites in this directory · Alaska Department of Corrections counts 13 correctional institutions. See why they differ. County and city jails1 Juvenile facilities8 Other facilities11
Official routes and practical help

What do you need to do in Alaska?

Each link goes to the agency that actually handles it. Individual facilities can still add their own rules, so confirm with the one holding the person.

Facility directory

All Alaska facility records.

Open a group to see its records. Type in the box to narrow the list by facility, city, or county.

State prisons in Alaska14 records
FacilityCityCounty
Anchorage Correctional Complex Anchorage Anchorage
Anvil Mountain Correctional Center Nome Nome
Fairbanks Correctional Center Fairbanks Fairbanks North Star
Goose Creek Correctional Center Wasilla Matanuska-Susitna
Hiland Mountain Correctional Center Eagle River Anchorage
Ketchikan Correctional Center Ketchikan Ketchikan Gateway
Lemon Creek Correctional Center Juneau Juneau
Mat-Su Pretrial Palmer Matanuska-Susitna
Palmer Correctional Center Palmer Matanuska-Susitna
Pt. Mackenzie Correctional Farm Wasilla Matanuska-Susitna
Spring Creek Correctional Center Seward Kenai Peninsula
Wildwood Correctional Center Kenai Kenai Peninsula
Wildwood Pretrial Facility Kenai Kenai Peninsula
Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center Bethel Bethel
County and city jails in Alaska1 records
FacilityCityCounty
North Slope Borough Correctional Center Barrow North Slope
Juvenile facilities in Alaska8 records
FacilityCityCounty
Bethel Youth Facility Bethel Bethel
Fairbanks Youth Facility Fairbanks Fairbanks North Star
Johnson Youth Center Juneau Juneau
Kenai Peninsula Youth Facility Kenai Kenai Peninsula
Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility Ketchikan Ketchikan Gateway
Mat-Su Youth Facility Palmer Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Mclaughlin Youth Center Anchorage Anchorage
Nome Youth Facility Nome Nome
Other facilities in Alaska11 records
FacilityCityCounty
Craig Jail Facility Craig Prince Of Wales-Hyder
Dillingham Corrections Facility Dillingham Dillingham
Homer Community Jail Homer Kenai Peninsula Borough
King Salmon Jail King Salmon Bristol Bay
Kodiak Jail Kodiak Kodiak Island Borough
Kotzebue Regional Jail Kotzebue Northwest Arctic
Sand Point Jail Sand Point Aleutians East
Seward Community Jail Seward Kenai Peninsula
Sitka Community Jail Sitka Sitka Borough
Unalaska City Jail Unalaska Aleutians West
Wrangell Correctional Center Wrangell Wrangell Borough
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Where in Alaska?

Most people know the county or the city, not the name of the facility. Start there. Bail is set and posted at the county jail, so the county page is also where the sheriff, the custody search and the court contacts live.

20 counties in Alaska with facility records

22 cities in Alaska with facility records
No longer operating

4 closed facilities in Alaska

These have shut. Nobody is held at any of them. They are listed because the names stay in people’s records, letters and memories long after the doors close, and because a directory that simply omits them looks broken to the person searching.

Open the canonical historical-facility directory →

4 more, closing date not yet confirmed

  • KETCHIKAN REGIONAL YOUTH FACILITY Ketchikan
  • NOME YOUTH FACILITY Nome
  • PALMER CORRECTIONAL CENTER Palmer
  • PT. MACKENZIE CORRECTIONAL FARM Wasilla

Parole and probation

Alaska parole offices — where someone reports after release, which is rarely the city they were held in.