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Goose Creek Correctional Center
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Goose Creek Correctional Center is a state prison located in Matanuska-Susitna County, Alaska. Rated capacity: 1,536. Reported population: 1,125. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Goose Creek Correctional Center is an Alaska Department of Corrections state medium-security prison for men, located at the corner of Port Access Road and Alsop Road in Point MacKenzie, Alaska, in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. The 435,000-square foot, $240 million facility has been controversial for its cost. Construction started in July 2009. It accepted its first prisoners in July 2012, with the state planning for all 1,050 state prisoners formerly housed out of state (in private prisons in Colorado and Arizona) to be housed in Goose Creek by September 2013.
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Capacity
1,536
Current population
1,125
Occupancy
73%
Year opened
2012
Closed 2014
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Alaska Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2012
Region
Alaska
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
At least 10 pretrial inmates filed federal petitions alleging violations of speedy trial rights and the appointment of unreliable public defenders.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 6. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 4 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- propublica7 Jan 2025
had his drug charges thrown out after asserting his attorney waived his speedy trial rights violation without his consent. And since October, at least 10 pretrial inmates at the Goose Creek Correctional Center have filed petitions in federal court challenging their state detention. They allege the state violated their speedy trial rights and in some cases appointed unreliable public defenders,
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q16891800)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Goose Creek Correctional Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/goose-creek-correctional-center
"Goose Creek Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/goose-creek-correctional-center.
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