Spring Creek Correctional Center is the only maximum security correctional facility in Alaska. It is located in Seward, Alaska, United States, about 125 miles (201 km) south of Anchorage. The prison is located on about 328 acres (1.33 km2) of land surrounded by national parks. The prison capacity consists of over 500 inmates and 200 staff workers. Built as a decentralized campus, the prison construction was completed in 1988 at a cost of $44,678,000.
In the prison's history, there have been two murders inside the prison, one escape and at least one failed escape plot.
In 2004, Spring Creek inmate Carl Abhul, already incarcerated for another murder, killed his cellmate Gregory Beaudoin. Abhul was convicted of Beaudoin's murder and sentenced to an additional 30 years in prison. [1]
In 2008, convicted murderer John Carlin III was beaten to death in Spring Creek. Carlin was the alleged co-conspirator in the case of Mechele Linehan, a former stripper convicted in the death of her former fiance Kent Leppink.[2]
An escape involving two inmates from Spring Creek occurred in 1994. Both inmates were subsequently recaptured.[3] A second, unrelated escape plot in 2001 was unsuccessful.[4]
Coordinates: 60°05′38″N 149°20′09″W / 60.093953°N 149.335785°W
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