In addition to financial settlements, the organization is asking for the court to order an independent investigation into Department of Corrections practices, said Ruth Botstein, the organization’s legal director.
for the court to order an independent investigation into Department of Corrections practices, said Ruth Botstein, the organization’s legal director.
The Alaska Department of Law and Department of Corrections haven’t been served with the lawsuits or reviewed them yet, the departments said.found that suicides drove the record number of deaths in Alaska correctional facilities last year, and documented lapses including instances when deaths happened even after inmates had been identified as a suicide risk.The plaintiffs in the lawsuits are family members of two men who died by suicide in Alaska prisons in the past year.
Cook’s debilitating back pain from an injury worsened until he couldn’t get up from the floor of his cell, according to the lawsuit. In unrelenting pain, he took his life on April 22 after covering the camera in his cell, the lawsuit alleges.
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