Alaska inmate search

The answer is no: the state is made up of organized boroughs and the Unorganized Borough rather than counties. You won't find any county jails in this state. After police make an arrest, officers take that person to a facility operated by the Alaska Department of Corrections.

According to the Alaska Legislature, Alaska is 1 of 7 states that use a unified correctional system. Under a unified system, 1 state agency oversees both local jails and state prisons. There's no need to work out whether a city police department or a sheriff is holding your family member. Anyone taken into custody after an arrest remains in a state facility.

Separate public rosters aren't posted online by individual facilities. Since 1 state agency manages all jails and prisons, the state relies on a single VINE lookup.

Search the statewide roster online, or contact the jail directly. Every facility is included: criminal case details, protective order information, and custody status appear online.

Call the facility directly if the arrest happened within the last few hours; new bookings need time to finish booking steps. You can also call the state VINE line at 1-800-247-9763 to check custody by phone. Every state facility is included in the phone service as well as the online lookup.

Everyone in state custody is managed by the Alaska Department of Corrections, also called Alaska DOC. On the agency website, VINELink is the destination for the Find an Inmate link; the Victim Notification link goes there too.

A separate inmate database isn't kept on the Alaska DOC website itself. After an arrest in most states, the local jail is where you check; after sentencing, the prison database is the place to look. With Alaska DOC running a unified system, 1 search covers sentenced prisoners and new detainees alike. A person released by a judge before trial is supervised by the DOC Pretrial Enforcement Division.

For every custody check, Alaska DOC relies on Alaska VINELink as its main online lookup. You can use it to confidentially look up protective orders, criminal case details, and current custody status.

Since this tool serves as the state's main locator, there's no other state database for you to check. Signing up for free notifications is also an option. If a person's custody status changes, the system will alert you.

If you don't have internet access, call the VINE line at 1-800-247-9763. The phone line and website pull from the same state records.

Judges release most defendants on personal recognizance, an unsecured appearance bond, or a promise to appear; AS 12.30, together with AS 12.30.011, governs this. The state hasn't done away with cash bail. The DOC Pretrial Enforcement Division supervises people released before trial, after pretrial reforms made from 2016 to 2019. Judges can require more:

• Cash deposit paid into the court registry, no more than 10% of the bond
• Either a third-party custodian or a cash performance bond
• Bail bond with sureties, meaning a bail company provides the financial guarantee

A bail bond costs you a premium, and that premium is the bond's fee. No fixed percentage is set in statute; 3 AAC 23.745 through 23.800, plus Regulation 3 AAC 23.760, control this. Each bail bond limited producer is licensed by the Alaska Division of Insurance. Only a premium matching the effective rate on file with the Director of Insurance can be charged by a producer.