One group ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper-sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call.

By Kate Morrissey for Capital & Main

A Coast Guard plane carrying several dozen people in immigration custody landed in Alaska in early June.

Several of the men said that they didn’t have bathroom access on the plane — or even seats. They flew shackled in the cargo area of the plane.

They’d been transferred from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, to the Anchorage Correctional Complex, a facility run by the state Department of Corrections.

“From that moment on, I personally felt dehumanized,” said one man who kept a journal from the experience.

Capital & Main is not identifying him or several other people in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcem

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