county jails

One mother told KUER she worries about her son who’s in the facility and that the show is taking advantage of an “already marginalized group of people.”

Since Utah's Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office hired Cheryl Swapp in 2023, recidivism has dropped sharply.

One-third of the inmates at Washington County’s jail have tested positive for COVID-19 and family members say officials didn’t provide adequate protection…

More information about what goes on in Utah’s jails and prison could become public information, if the state legislature passes a series of transparency…

Following a state-mandated report on the number of deaths in Utah’s jails, officials from county sheriff’s offices, mental health advocates and jail…

If a budget catastrophe, mixed with competing law enforcements' interests and federal healthcare law, could blow up a county jail, inmate Gerardo Valerio…

An inmate at the Utah County Jail is racking up almost $1 million dollars in medical bills, more than half the jail’s annual medical budget. Utah County…

Utah’s state prison population of serious criminals has mostly dropped over the last two decades. But a new report released this week shows the number of…

Officials at a county jail in Utah have said they won’t disclose records to the public, in part because the information is stored on a remote server…

The ACLU of Utah will continue to fight for the full release of Utah’s current jail standards. This comes after the state announced a redacted version…

The Utah Department of Corrections says it will write new standards for safety and operations at state prisons and county jails — and those standards will…

Utah’s had a rash of inmate deaths lately. In fact, the state has had more inmates per capita die this past few years than any other state in the…