The Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) announced three deaths within the last four days of Alaskans in custody at prison facilities across the state.
The Northern Justice Project and the ACLU of Alaska filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to return 56 book titles to Mat-Su Borough School District library shelves.
The Northern Justice Project and the ACLU of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the Mat-Su Borough School District for the removal of 56 books from school libraries that contained ideas that the Board desired to suppress.
The ACLU of Alaska has filed a class action lawsuit against the Alaska Department of Corrections for the denial of religious accommodations for Muslim people detained at Anchorage Correctional Complex.
A trial will begin in a state superior court in Alaska in a lawsuit to expand abortion access in the state by permanently blocking a physician-only law that prevents advanced practice clinicians (APCs) to provide both medication and aspiration abortion.
On Saturday, October 21, the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) introduced and passed Resolution 23-07, calling for an independent federal investigation into the disproportionate prison deaths of Alaska Native people in Department of Corrections (DOC) custody.