Senator French has called for a Special Legislative Hearing on the recent rash of inmate deaths. It will be held July 15, 2014. Commissioner Schmidt has been invited to speak at the hearing. The hearing will be held in a room across the street from the Anchorage LIO building, as the LIO building is under construction. It is a small room but it would be nice to fill it with Officers.
What: Legislative Hearing on Inmate Deaths
When: 10:30am-noon on Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Where: Temporary Anchorage Legislative Information Office, 733 W. 4th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501 (Click here for a map)
Feel free to come to the ACOA office prior to the meeting if you would like to be shuttled over. The ACOA office is located at 203 E 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501 (Click here for a map). The issue for us is to expose the DOC Upper Management’s strategy of blaming Officers for the increase in inmate deaths when in fact DOC Upper Management only has themselves to blame for reducing minimums, going to the 8s, and unnecessarily endangering Officers, inmates, and the public.
