By C1 Staff
JUNEAU, Alaska — Two male inmates at Juneau’s Lemon Creek Correctional Center overdosed on an unspecified ‘controlled substance’ Tuesday, prompting an investigation into the incident.
“The inmates were initially discovered by a corrections officer that was monitoring security cameras,” said deputy director of the Department of Corrections Sherri Daigle. “The officers do routine checks on inmates every 30 to 40 minutes, but this officer was monitoring the security cameras, noticed that there was something that wasn’t quite right and went to go check on the situation.”
The two inmates, who were in separate cells at the time of the incident, were transported by ambulance to Bartlett Regional Hospital, according to KTOO.org. One inmate was treated and returned to the correctional center that same day.
The other was medevaced to Anchorage Regional Hospital for further treatment and transported to a separate facility two days later.
Alaska State Troopers were brought into the investigation because contraband was found, according to the report.