Republican lawmakers abruptly cancel hearing on Alaska prison deaths over legal concerns

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Republican lawmakers abruptly cancel hearing on Alaska prison deaths over legal concerns

Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau, Alaska in June 2023. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The coffee was hot. The slide deck was cued up. And Jacqueline Shepherd, a prison investigator and intake attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, was ready to tell lawmakers some grim news. “When planning for today, I expected to talk to you about three unreported deaths that I uncovered in 2023,” she told Alaska Public Media. “But in the pa…