SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Corrections has reported a third inmate has died after contracting the coronavirus at the state prison. The 50-year-old man was the youngest inmate in Utah to die after testing positive for COVID-19, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. He was originally hospitalized Oct. 12 and […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — The families of inmates in Utah State Prison gathered outside the state Department of Corrections headquarters Tuesday to protest the handling of a coronavirus outbreak at the facility and call for improved safety measures. The group joined advocates with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — The Utah Department of Corrections has reported that an inmate died after an altercation with another inmate at the Utah State Prison in Draper. The altercation occurred Monday night at the prison’s Oquirrh Facility, KUTV-TV reported. Corrections officials said the family of the dead inmate was notified, […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — The Utah State Prison in Draper and the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison have been placed under a 24-hour lockdown after authorities believe the general inmate populations were exposed to COVID-19. The state Department of Corrections said the facilities went into lockdown Wednesday around 3 […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — Nearly 200 of the 540 positions at Utah State Prison are vacant, forcing state corrections officials to fill the shortage by busing in officers from another prison twice a day, officials said. Eight corrections officers travel more than 100 miles (160.93 kilometers) from the other state-run […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It’s been 23 years since Christopher Wickham has seen the ocean, or taken a trip beyond Utah’s borders that lasted longer than a day or two. He spent nearly 15 of those years at the Utah State Prison. And since his release in 2011, his […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The wife of a man accused of fatally shooting a University of Utah student has been sentenced to a year in jail for her role in the killing. The Deseret News reports 23-year-old Kathleen Elizabeth Rose Boutain was sentenced Friday. Austin Boutain was given a […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — Ten years ago, Wendy Kerbs was killed while gardening in her yard. A man who was drunk and high on meth at the time had been driving 50 mph (81 kph) on a residential street near Kerbs’ house in the northern Utah city of Roy. He […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Michelle Aldana gave birth to her first child chained to a hospital bed. Then serving time at the Utah state prison on a drug charge, she says she labored through the difficult 2001 birth for nearly 30 hours, her ankles bleeding as the shackles on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new state report shows that 71 people have died in Utah jails since 2013, with the majority of inmate deaths occurring within a week of being locked up. The state Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice compiled the report — the first time a […]
