The 16 deaths of incarcerated persons are the highest number reported since 2002, when the department also reported 16 inmates died that year.
Family members of 48-year-old Marcus Gillion say that wasn’t the case for them. They were shocked to learn that Gillion had died on Sept. 25, while being incarcerated at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. Gillion was the 14th inmate this year to die while in department custody. Gillion’s family says he had a heart condition and was diagnosed with schizophrenia but appeared to be healthy while taking his medications. Gillion was arrested when his mother, Carolyn Gillion, called police for help.
“He started acting strange, talking strange, out of his head and so I didn’t know no other way but to try to get him some help through the courts,” Carolyn Gillion said.
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