jail deaths

Meagan Deadrich was 27 weeks pregnant when she was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on a probation violation in 2018. Soon after, she started…

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…

The ACLU of Utah and Disability Law Center have announced a lawsuit against Davis County to release its standards for operating local jails following a…

On December 1st, 2016, 21-year-old Madison Jensen died of heroin withdrawal in the Duchesne County Jail. She’d been violently ill, but no one in the jail…

Utah is working to get mentally ill jail inmates the treatment they need to stand trial. But because of funding, many of them now have to wait. The Utah…

More transparency could be coming to Utah jails and prisons with a bill that would require them to report all in-custody deaths to the state. Sen. Todd…

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…

A Utah nurse is charged with negligent homicide in the death of a 21-year-old inmate at the Duchesne County Jail. State prosecutors say 50-year-old Jana…