Alaska Inmate Search: VINE, the Department of Corrections and the Parole Board

Written by SearchSystems.net from Alaska's own systems: the Alaska Department of Corrections Automated Victim Notification System (VINE) page, the department's home page, the department's Inmate Phone System page, the department's Victim Resources FAQ, the department's Victim Service Unit page, the Alaska Parole Board page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.

VINE: location, release date and notifications

The service the department offers is built for victims but open to anyone who calls. Dialing 1-800-247-9763 returns an inmate's current location and tentative release date; registering on the VINELink website or by phone adds an automated notification when the inmate is released, escapes, is placed in a work release facility or dies in custody. The department calls the system anonymous and confidential, and the Victim Resources FAQ adds a second route: a victim who has asked the department to notify them in writing receives a notice before the inmate's release unless a court action reduces the sentence, which the FAQ describes as one of two victim notification programs available through the department. The Victim Service Unit's pages also carry an Offender Photograph Request Form.

The Victim Service Unit

The unit exists to provide information, assistance and support to victims of crime and other concerned parties whose offenders are in the custody of the department, and it is the number to call when an offender makes unwanted contact: toll free 1-877-741-0741, or 907-269-0922 after hours; the facility holding the offender and, for an offender on probation, the supervising probation officer can also be told, and local police are the contact when the offender is not under the department's supervision. The unit updates a victim's address by phone, mail or online form, handles restitution problems for felons on probation or parole through the supervising officer or its criminal justice technician, and registers victims for notice of parole hearings. The department publishes its address in two forms, 1815 Bragaw Street, Suite 101, Anchorage, AK 99508 on the VINE page and 800 A Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501 on the FAQ, with the same phone, 907-269-7384, toll free number and fax, 907-269-7382, on both.

Calling an inmate: Securus and the 2026 rates

The department contracts with Securus Technologies for telephone service with family, friends and loved ones, under the Federal Communications Commission's requirements and the Regulatory Commission of Alaska's. Inmates may only place outgoing calls and cannot receive calls at a facility; a family member sets up a billing account with Securus on its website or at 1-800-844-6591, either AdvanceConnect, which deducts collect call charges from a prepaid account, or Direct Bill, which bills the charges through Securus Correctional Billing Services after a credit check. The Inmate Phone System page states the rates: effective January 1, 2026, every call made by an Alaska DOC inmate costs $0.085 a minute, local, intrastate and interstate alike, and effective February 1, 2026 every inmate receives two free calls a month, credited to the Securus account on the first day of the month, usable for the first two calls of that month to any domestic number whether or not the called party has a Securus account, never saved up or used at other times.

Visiting and the department's phone lines

The home page's visitation notice, dated January 1, 2025, says all visitation is open at all facilities and that specifics and appointments come from the facility directly. The department does not mandate vaccines but offers them at intake and throughout incarceration at no charge. Its frequently requested numbers are general institution questions at 907.334.2381, medical health care, appointments and billing at 907.269.7300, Central Medical Records at 907.269.4217, behavioral health care at 907.269.7320, sentenced electronic monitoring at 907.269.0927, pretrial electronic monitoring at 907.334.5998 and reentry services at 907.269.5299; a mail policy, an attorney information page, the Standards of Jail Operations 2025 and the Prison Rape Elimination Act information are among its published documents.

Probation, parole and the Parole Board

The victim FAQ explains what follows a conviction. In felony cases the judge may order a presentence report, which takes an average of 60 days, with sentencing about 90 days after conviction; the report, a social history of the offender with the victim impact statement, follows the offender through every later contact with the department and is used by the Parole Board. After sentencing an offender either goes under Probation and Parole supervision in the community or into an institution, with supervision afterward when ordered. Parole lets an offender serve the last part of a sentence in the community under a parole officer, in two forms: discretionary parole, which requires completing one third of the sentence and the approval of the Alaska Board of Parole, an independent agency within the department whose five citizen members weigh the seriousness of the offense, the record, adjustment and treatment, future plans, and the crime's impact on the victim; and mandatory parole. Victims and survivors are notified of all discretionary parole hearings as long as the department has their current address, and may write to the Board or testify in person. The Board holds its annual public meeting on Wednesday, November 4, 2026.

Clemency: pardons, commutations and no expungement

Clemency is the Governor's power under Article III, Section 21 of the Alaska Constitution to grant a pardon, a commutation, a reprieve or a remission of fines and forfeitures for state crimes, and applications go through the Parole Board, by mail to 550 W. 7th Ave., Suite 1800, Anchorage, Alaska 99501 or by email to clemency@alaska.gov, with no fee and no lawyer required. Since January 2018 the process is new, and anyone who applied between 2006 and 2018 must file a new signed application and waivers or have the earlier request deemed denied. The Board is plain about the limit: a pardon does not expunge, remove or erase the crime from the record, Alaska has no law or method to expunge criminal history records at this time, and even those who receive clemency keep their records.

Reading an Alaska result

A VINE answer gives the facility and a tentative release date for a person in the department's custody, pretrial or sentenced, and nothing for someone not in custody; the date is tentative because parole, good time and court action move it. The department's own lines fill in the rest, from medical records to electronic monitoring, and the Parole Board's pages explain the hearing that may change the date. Nothing in the system expunges a record, which the Board says Alaska cannot do.

Questions about finding an inmate in Alaska

Related Alaska records

The department's records are among the Alaska records this site covers: the Alaska arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers CourtView and the clerks' files, the sex offender registry guide covers the Department of Public Safety registry, and the Alaska borough pages list each police and court office.