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2018-01-08
Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice;
Alaska has had statutory sentencing guidelines in place since 1980, which have since been supplemented by appellate court decisions. Alaska briefly created a sentencing commission in 1990; it produced a final report in 1992 before its legislative mandate expired in 1993. Alaska felony defendants are sentenced to definite terms of imprisonment.Alaska's Constitution provides for a parole board; the statute that the current Board operates under was originallyenacted in 1985. Alaska law provides both discretionary parole for some inmates and mandatory parole for mostinmates serving a sentence of more than two years.
2005-03-15
Environmental and Energy Study Institute;
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a Congressional briefing on March 15, 2005 on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) 1 and climate change impacts already observed in Alaska. The assessment, released in November 2004, is an intergovernmental report based on a four-year scientific study of the Arctic conducted by an international team of 300 scientists and sponsored by the eight arctic nations (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States) and six indigenous people's organizations. It concludes that the average winter temperatures in Alaska and other arctic regions have increased by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3-4 degrees Celsius) in the past 50 years, twice the rate of the rest of the globe, and are projected to continue rising for the next century. Alaska is being affected by climate change and experienced its warmest summer on record in 2004, characterized by its worst fire season, unprecedented insect outbreaks, and significant coastal erosion. The warming has caused a decline in summer sea ice extent and thickness, allowing seasonal storms to increasingly erode portions of the Alaskan coastline. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates costs of $100-400 million to move a single endangered Alaskan village, with some 184 villages seen as susceptible to flooding and erosion.
2008-11-06
National Institute on Money in State Politics;
Since the mid-1990s - through six legislative sessions and three gubernatorial administrations - Alaska's lawmakers have made more than a half dozen attempts to privatize prisons. These attempts have met with unfavorable public opinion. To date, the strength of public opposition has prevailed, and all private prison proposals have been defeated.Fast FactsStaying true to her campaign promise not to accept campaign contributions from Veco Corp, Gov. Sarah Palin received no money from the private-prison advocate and Alaskan oil field and services company during her 2006 gubernatorial race.
2010-02-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in- person interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The study summarized below focuses on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the FA network. Key Findings: The Feeding America system served by The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc provides emergency food for an estimated 77,200 different people annually. 40% of the members of households served by The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2). 37% of households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1). Among households with children, 86% are food insecure and 34% are food insecure with very low food security (Table 6.1.1.1). 43% of clients served by The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1).36% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1). 26% of households served by The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1) The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc included approximately 261 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 179 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 131 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter. 57% of pantries, 42% of kitchens, and 38% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1). Among programs that existed in 2006, 75% of pantries, 75% of kitchens, and 67% of shelters of The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1). Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 78% of the food distributed by pantries, 42% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 42% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1). As many as 85% of pantries, 89% of kitchens, and 63% of shelters in The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).
2006-02-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by the Food Bank of Alaska. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2006, conducted for America's Second Harvest (A2H), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 52,000 clients served by the A2H food bank network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 30,000 A2H agencies. The study summarized below focuses mainly on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the A2H network. Key Findings: The A2H system served by the Food Bank of Alaska provides food for an estimated 83,200 different people annually.28% of the members of households served by the Food Bank of Alaska are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2).29% of client households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1).Among client households with children, 73% are food insecure and 38% are experiencing hunger (Table 6.1.1).32% of clients served by The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1).32% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1).19% of households served by The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1)The Food Bank of Alaska, Inc included approximately 261 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 159 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 117 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter.63% of pantries, 40% of kitchens, and 51% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1).64% of pantries, 82% of kitchens, and 51% of shelters of the Food Bank of Alaska reported that there had been an increase since 2001 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1).Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 77% of the food distributed by pantries, 42% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 41% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1).For the Food Bank of Alaska, 83% of pantries, 94% of kitchens, and 64% of shelters use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).
2010-11-10
Pew Environment Group;
Examines the risks, challenges, and potential impact of oil spills from Arctic oil and gas exploration and production. Recommendations include ecosystem mapping, oil spill trajectory models, blowout prevention measures, and response gap analysis.
2011-01-01
Homer Foundation;
Contains board chair's message, executive director's message, 2010 highlights, grantee and donor profiles, program information, financial statements, grants list, lists of donors and funds, donor information, and list of board members.
2005-12-19
Public Education Network (PEN);
The PEN national office launched a 2005 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) online survey to follow up on the 2004 survey. The 2004 survey generated 12,000 responses and greatly influenced the recommendations in the "Open to the Public" report released in March 2005. PEN was particularly interested in reaching grassroots constituencies, but the voices of everyone -- including educators -- were counted.
2009-01-14
Alaska Arts Education Consortium;
In 2008 the Alaska State Council on the Arts collaborated with the Alaska Arts Education Consortium and the Alaska School Administrators Association to conduct a statewide, comprehensive survey to look what is happening with the arts in our schools. This first-of-its-kind study was designed to provide useful, baseline data to policy makers, district administrators, parents, teachers, University faculty, business leaders, arts advocates arts organizations and the Alaska community at large. This report dramatically illustrates that there is much to do, to ensure that the #1 goal for all Alaskan students - access to high quality arts experiences as a basic component of their K -- 12 education -- is truly met.
2009-10-01
Syracuse University;
Observed tradeoffs between monetary returns and fatality risk identify estimates of the valueof a statistical life (VSL), which inform public policy and quantify preferences for environmentalquality, health and safety. To date, few investigations have estimated the VSL associated withtradeoffs between returns from natural resource extraction activities and the fatality risks theyinvolve. Furthermore researchers have been unable to determine whether or not one's VSL is stableacross multiple decision environments using revealed preference methods. Understanding thesetradeoffs (and the VSL that they imply) may be used to inform resource management policy andsafety regulations, as well as our general understanding of the value of life. By modeling a commercial fishing captain's choice to fish or not, conditional on the observed risk, this research investigates these topics using data from the Alaskan red king crab and snow crab fisheries. Using weather conditions and policy variables as instruments, our estimates of the mean VSL range from $4.00M to $4.76M (depending on the modeling assumption and fishery analyzed) and are robust to the incorporation of heterogeneous preferences. Furthermore, given the unique nature of the data we are able to conduct an intra-vessel comparison of the VSL and conclude that for roughly 92% of thefishermen observed in the data set their VSL estimates are stable across both fisheries.
