Local and Non-Local Jail Use: An Examination of a Sample of Alaska Community Jail Detainees

• Main Author: Schafer, N. E.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage 2001
• Subjects: bush justice; Barrow; Alaska; Cordova; corrections; Craig; Dillingham; Haines; Homer; jails; King Salmon; Bristol Bay Borough; Kodiak; Kotzebue; Petersburg; rural justice; Seward; Sitka; Unalaska; Valdez; Wrangell
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8297

An earlier version of this report was presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Washington, DC, April 2001. Data collected for the Alaska Community Jails Statewide Research Consortium included neither race nor place of residence. Because of their interest in both racial distribution and the use of the jail by nonresidents, the fifteen member jails provided this information for a random sample of detainees. The sample consisted of 1,687 detainees, more than a third of whom were not from the communities in which they were held. There was considerable variation by facility and much of the variance appears to be related to the nature of the community and its relationship to surrounding villages and to its geographic location in the state. Research supported by Grant No. 98-CE-VX-0014 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. [Introduction] / Background / The Rural Sample / Conclusion / Bibliography