Xmas far, far from home

It was sunny and warm when federal inmates from Alaska celebrated Christmas. About 800 Alaskan inmates are in jail in Arizona, a U.S. state located thousands of kilometers from Alaska.

Since 1994, Alaskan natives who are sentenced to federal penitentiary terms have serve their time at the Florence prison, which is run by the Corrections Corporation of America.

At their Christmas supper aboriginal dancers provided entertainment. Then, inmates and their guests sat down to a traditional dinner of salmon, moose stew, fish stew, rice and berries.