The Fairbanks News-Miner has this op-ed by seven of Alaska's nine district attorneys:
Many of us are lifelong prosecutors who have spent years in the trenches trying to do the best we can to keep Alaskans safe and seek justice. We work side by side with law enforcement to try and get those offenders off the street who are likely to do more harm, get those offenders into treatment who need some help and achieve the best outcome under the circumstances to protect the community. The current criminal laws tie our hands along with the hands of judges and keep us from achieving these important goals.
Among the problems noted are a lack of consequences for drug offenders, removing an important incentive to them to get clean, a risk assessment tool that doesn't work, particularly with chronic offenders, insufficient consequences for probation and parole violations, and failure of the sex offender registration law to include out-of-state offenders moving to Alaska.
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