Goose Creek Correctional Center

{{Short description|Alaskan state prison}}

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| prison_name = Goose Creek Correctional Center

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| location = Port Access Road and Alsop Road
Point MacKenzie, Alaska

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| classification = medium security

| capacity = 1536

| opened = July 2012http://www.correct.state.ak.us/institutions/gccc/docs/071212_GOOSE_CREEK_FAQ_SHEET.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

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| managed_by = Alaska Department of Corrections

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Goose Creek Correctional Center is an Alaska Department of Corrections state medium-security prison for men, located at the corner of Port Access Road and Alsop Road in Point MacKenzie, Alaska, in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.

The 435,000-square foot, $240 million facility has been controversial for its cost. Construction started in July 2009.{{Cite web |url=http://www.correct.state.ak.us/blog/akdoctoday/entry/a_message_from_commissioner_joe |title=AK DOC Today | Alaska Department of Corrections |access-date=2014-02-04 |archive-date=2014-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225204710/http://www.correct.state.ak.us/blog/akdoctoday/entry/a_message_from_commissioner_joe |url-status=dead }} It accepted its first prisoners in July 2012, with the state planning for all 1,050 state prisoners formerly housed out of state (in private prisons in Colorado and Arizona) to be housed in Goose Creek by September 2013.{{Cite web |url=http://www.alaskadispatch.com/slideshow/photos-inside-goose-creek-prison |title=Photos: Inside Goose Creek prison | Alaska Dispatch |access-date=2014-02-04 |archive-date=2014-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222142800/http://www.alaskadispatch.com/slideshow/photos-inside-goose-creek-prison |url-status=dead }}