Anchorage Probation Office

Anchorage Probation Office basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 907-334-2300

ANCHORAGE PROBATION OFFICE

The Anchorage Probation Office is the largest in the state. There are fifty-four positions assigned to the office, including forty-three Adult Probation/Parole Officers, seven Criminal Justice Technicians, and four Office Assistants. The Anchorage Probation Office supervises offenders on probation/parole supervision for numerous types of offenses, with a primary focus of facilitating community safety and working with offenders to rehabilitate their behavior and reintegrate into the community. The Anchorage office also has specialized caseloads/units that address the special supervision needs of sex offender and mentally ill offenders. The Anchorage office continues to research and implement new and more innovative programming/interventions that will help us to be even more productive in carrying out the mission of Probation and Parole.

Anchorage Presentence Unit
310 K Street, Suite 508
Anchorage, Alaska 99501

Phone: 907-269-6040
Fax: 907-269-6035

PROBATION AND PAROLE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

• Develop and maintain public safety through supervision standards in conjunction with the Regional Chief Probation Officers. Provide for public safety through supervision of adult felons in Probation and Parole jurisdiction.
• Standardize Probation Officer training and the delivery of probation/parole services throughout the state.
• Establish uniform risk management tools for general offenders and sex offenders.
• Increase supervision of high-risk sex offenders. Continue to develop the Interagency Sex Offender Working Group to improve interagency coordination, policy, practices and other methods for managing sex offender risk to victims and potential victims.
• Maintain and enhance communications with the criminal justice system throughout the state.
• Research and develop alternatives to incarceration while providing protection for the public. Identify and implement intermediate sanctions programs statewide.
• Continue to explore the application of neighborhood-based supervision/community policing system.
• Expand the use of minimum banks and 1-900 telephone numbers for low-risk probation and parole clients.
• Provide supervision to offenders to assist them in dealing with problems that may have led to their arrests and convictions.
• Improve officer safety and increase specialized training.
• Increase offender accountability to victim and the community by implementing victim impact classes for offenders across the state; developing a pool of interagency facilitators and speakers to increase information, resources and support for victims; and increase in offender restitution/fine collection and community work service hours.
• Improve victim services in the Division of Probation and Parole by a) increased community education programs on victim services; b) identification of current victim services; and c) development of materials, forms, and policy changes as needed to insure they are more victim sensitive.
• Preserve and enhance agricultural assets through farm rehabilitative programs.
• Provide adult basic educational and life skills to offender population.
• Provide substance abuse education/counseling to offender population.