A snapshot of the overnight population in DOC facilities. The count is taken at 00:00 on the date you select — effectively, who slept where that night. Click any of the five population cards to focus the chart and table on that population type.
Because it’s a single point-in-time snapshot, the count doesn’t reflect within-day churn: a few-hour booking that’s processed and released the same day won’t appear at all, and a bed used by two different people across a day (one out, one in) counts as one bed overnight, not two.
Counts come from ACOMS automatically. The one piece that's tracked by hand is the CRC manual count: people supervised by the Division of Probation, Parole, & Pretrial (DP3) are recorded in ACOMS under their assigned field office rather than their physical location, so Central Classification tallies how many of their supervisees are in each CRC. The site waits for that count to arrive before advancing the snapshot date, which typically takes one to two business days after the day in question.
Default view combines ACC East and West into ACC and the three Wildwood facilities into WCC. Toggle this off in the Facility table card.
Some people hold two statuses at once — they are on the Electronic Monitoring program but occupy a bed at a Community Residential Center or Treatment Center. Each card shows the figure that population actually reports: such a person is counted in the EM program total and in the CRC or Treatment bed count. Because of that overlap the EM card flags the shared count, which is not added to the Division of Institutions total — there, everyone is counted once.
Each day's overnight count, plotted across the date range you select — the same snapshot the Daily Population page uses, day by day. Stack the chart by population type, by legal status, or use the Total option to roll everything together.
Pick a population type from the cards below to switch to per-facility trend lines within that type. The cards here are independent from the Daily Population page — selections don't sync between the two.
Demographic breakdowns of the overnight facility population on the selected date. The filter cards above pick a population scope (all five types, or one). The "Break down by" picker chooses a secondary dimension that stacks each chart — so you can see, for example, the age breakdown within each race, or the legal-status mix within each sex.
Each chart's own dimension is always its y-axis (the Race chart always groups by race, the Sex chart always groups by sex, etc.). The breakdown picker only changes how each bar is colored and stacked. Buckets with zero count for the filter / date you've chosen are hidden so the page reflects what's actually in the data.
How the daily population counts are produced, what they include, and the terms used throughout.
This dashboard reports the overnight population of Alaska Department of Corrections facilities, broken down by facility, legal status, and demographics. Each daily count is taken at 00:00 — who was in a DOC facility at the start of that day — and covers DOC-operated institutions (jails and prisons), Community Residential Centers (CRCs), Electronic Monitoring (EM) placements, and Treatment Centers.
People under DOC supervision who aren't in a facility — for example, probationers and parolees reporting to a field office — aren't included here. This is a facility-population view, not a supervised-population view.
Alaska is one of six states that operate a combined jail-and-prison system. The population reported here includes both jail-equivalent custody (pretrial detention and short-stay holds) and prison-equivalent custody (sentences over one year), which most other states report on separate dashboards.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 — Statistical Tables. Combined-system states: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Vermont.
Most counts come from ACOMS, the offender management system, automatically each night — DOC institutions, CRCs, Electronic Monitoring placements, and Treatment Centers all flow through this feed.
The one piece that's tracked by hand is the CRC manual count: people supervised by the Division of Probation, Parole, & Pretrial (DP3) are recorded in ACOMS under their assigned field office rather than their physical location, so Central Classification tallies how many of their supervisees are in each CRC bed. The dashboard waits for that count to arrive before advancing its snapshot date, which typically takes one to two business days after the day in question.
Each person in the count carries a single legal status. We roll those into seven buckets:
Buckets with no people in them on the day shown are hidden from the chart, table, and legend, so the display only reflects what's actually in the data for that snapshot.
By default the Daily Population and Trends pages combine facilities that share a campus:
Toggle the merge off in the Facility table card on the Daily Population page to see each facility separately.