Tagged: prisons

Politics
3:23 pm
Wed May 29, 2013

Governor Appoints Six Members to New Prison Relocation and Development Authority

File: Utah State Prison

Governor Gary Herbert appointed six members to the newly formed Prison Relocation and Development Authority today. The group is tasked with examining the potential of moving the state prison that is currently located in Draper.

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Science & Technology
4:47 pm
Tue March 19, 2013

U Plans to Bring Science to Utah Prisons

Credit Benj Drummond
Biologist Nalini Nadkarni presents a lecture on trees to prison inmates in Washington state.
Politics
1:57 pm
Tue December 18, 2012

Committee Recommends Moving Prison from Draper

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Utah State Prison in Draper

The state’s Prison Relocation Authority Committee has endorsed the idea of moving Utah’s main state prison away from Draper, and that's something the business community there would like to see.

Bill Rappleye, the head of Draper's Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Draper City Council, thinks that's a great idea.  He says it would allow the kind of high-tech businesses that have been locating in Utah County to come into his city.

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Female Corrections Officers
9:45 am
Mon August 6, 2012

Women in the Utah Department of Corrections

Corrections officers in Utah are predominantly male. It’s a job that many believe requires traditionally masculine attributes like brute strength and force.  But less than a quarter of Utah Correction’s officers are female and that statistic does not begin to tell the entire story.

The Utah Corrections officer training program is the same for both men and women. The profession has become significantly more amiable for both sexes using verbal tactics and well-established boundaries between inmates and officers.

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