After inmate deaths, report finds multiple flaws in DOC protocol

In Anchorage today, state House and Senate Judiciary Committee members listened to recommendations from the authors of a Department of Corrections administrative review.
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The independent review, released in November, was conducted at the request of Gov. Bill Walker. It focuses on the failure of state prison policies. A spate of prisoner deaths within Alaska prisons over the past two years spurred the review.
Dean Williams, a special assistant to the governor and one of the review a