The next steps for DOC

Alaska Public Media | By Ellen Lockyer

Published February 5, 2016 at 3:15 PM AKST

Governor Walker recently announced Dean Williams as the new commissioner of the Department of Corrections. This week on Alaska Edition we will talk about the future of the Department of Corrections and the steps the new commissioner plans to take to better the system.

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HOST: Ellen Lockyer

GUESTS:

Carmen Gutierrez, Former Deputy of Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections

Randy McLellan, President, Alaska Correctional Officers Association

Dean Williams, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections

KSKA (FM 91.1) BROADCAST: Friday, Feb. 5, at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 6, at 6:00 p.m.

Alaska Public Television BROADCAST: Friday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 6, at 6:00 p.m.

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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone. Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org | 907.550.8446 | About Ellen

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