Goose Creek Correctional Center is an Alaska Department of Corrections state medium-security prison for men, located at the corner of Port Access Road and Alsop Road in Point MacKenzie, Alaska, in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.
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| Location | Port Access Road and Alsop Road Point MacKenzie, Alaska |
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| Security class | medium security |
| Capacity | 1536 |
| Opened | July 2012[1] |
| Managed by | Alaska Department of Corrections |
The 435,000-square foot, $240 million facility has been controversial for its cost. Construction started in July 2009.[2] It accepted its first prisoners in July 2012, with the state planning for all 1,050 state prisoners formerly housed out of state (in private prisons in Colorado and Arizona) to be housed in Goose Creek by September 2013.[3][2]
References
edit- ^ http://www.correct.state.ak.us/institutions/gccc/docs/071212_GOOSE_CREEK_FAQ_SHEET.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b "AK DOC Today | Alaska Department of Corrections". Archived from the original on 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
- ^ "Photos: Inside Goose Creek prison | Alaska Dispatch". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
External links
edit- "New Goose Creek prison experiences growing pains" Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
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