A last-minute procedural objection led to a cancellation and hard feelings among lawmakers and the invited speakers from the ACLU, who had traveled to Juneau to testify at a hearing on in-custody deaths.
Barbed wire fencing surrounds Goose Creek Correctional Center on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 outside of Wasilla.
Committee members voted 4-3 against holding the hearing, and McCormick was forced to end the meeting. All four votes to end the hearing were from House Republicans. “It’s incredibly difficult for them to get out here and for them to just get shut down like that is really poor process,” McCormick said.
“Frankly,” McCabe said, “I think the ACLU knew what they were doing and they took advantage of us as a committee to try to adjudicate a portion of their case in…and we just can’t do that.”
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