The state prison system in Alaska, comprising both pre-trial booking and long-term incarceration for sentenced prisoners, is a unified system run by the Alaska Department of Corrections.
Prior to the establishment of the department during the early 1980s, corrections was a division of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
[citation needed] There are no federal prisons located in the state of Alaska.
Federal prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing are typically held in state facilities.
[citation needed] State prisons in Alaska are as follows: