Yad Duu Quay Mark Cook Jr. is the third person to die in Alaska Department of Corrections custody this year. And his death fits a pattern.
Mark Cookʼs father, Mark Cook Sr., and uncle, Leif Abel at a hotel after Cookʼs passing. April 25, 2023.
Cook is the third person to die in Alaska Department of Corrections custody this year. His family says he died by suicide after hanging himself at Lemon Creek Correctional Center, where they say he’d spent weeks in solitary confinement with debilitating back pain. Cook was later transferred to Lemon Creek in Juneau because, his family said, he could not get the medical care he needed at the Hoonah jail. They said they were in touch with him throughout his time at Lemon Creek, and he didn’t get much care there, either. Abel said that at Lemon Creek, Cook often fell down and had a hard time controlling when he went to the bathroom — that sometimes he was left sitting in his own waste for hours before anyone would come to help him clean up.
Christina Love of Haven House, an organization that works with women leaving prison, backs up the family’s claim that Cook was in solitary confinement. She said Wednesday that she’d heard that from clients and confirmed it with prison staff. A department spokesperson told KTOO that it “does not practice true ‘solitary’ confinement, as most cells have two bunks” but declined to comment on whether or not Cook was kept separate from other inmates.
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