Opinions

Wohlforth columns on flaws in Alaska’s legal system

Columnist Charles Wohlforth has written repeatedly on flaws he sees in Alaska's legal system. Here are some of those columns.

  1. /commentary/article/journalist-who-broke-fairbanks-four-case-unsatisfied-after-release/2015/12/19/
  2. /commentary/article/disbelieved-fairrbanks-four-alibis-show-how-anti-native-bias-taints-justice/2016/03/27/
  3. /commentary/article/justice-system-unfair-poor-and-minorities-there-are-solutions/2016/03/29/
  4. /opinions/2017/05/13/unjustly-imprisoned-for-30-years-donna-armey-cant-get-alaskas-courts-to-listen-2/
  5. /opinions/2017/05/14/debunked-science-has-kept-suzette-welton-in-prison-for-17-years-2/
  6. /opinions/2017/05/16/alaska-could-release-innocent-prisoners-other-states-do/
  7. /opinions/2017/07/31/a-haines-couple-owes-52000-after-trying-to-block-people-driving-on-their-land/
  8. /opinions/2017/10/02/alaska-has-violated-convicts-constitutional-rights-for-a-decade-by-ignoring-their-pleas-for-mercy/

Charles Wohlforth

Charles Wohlforth was an Anchorage Daily News reporter from 1988 to 1992 and wrote a regular opinion column from 2015 until 2019. He served two terms on the Anchorage Assembly. He is the author of a dozen books about Alaska, science, history and the environment. More at wohlforth.com.

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