ADN obtained Alaska State Troopers investigation reports and medical examiner records, and spoke with family members, advocates and prison officials. Here’s what we found.
The state paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in a lawsuit settlement and damages to the family ofBolus hanged himself in solitary confinement at the Anchorage jail in 2014.
A correctional officer found her hanging from a bedsheet. It took more than five minutes for other workers to respond and cut her down. By that time she had suffered brain damage. The Alaska Department of Law said both cases are “active litigation.” The department didn’t offer a further response to the allegations in the lawsuits, saying it would answer in court.
The Alaska State Troopers report says the suicide was missed in wellness checks because correctional officers thought Douglas was sleeping under sheets.William Ben Hensley III was in a cell alone at Goose Creek’s high-security “special management unit” in October when a guard checked on him at 1:37 a.m., then returned to his office to do paperwork, according to a trooper investigation into his death.
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