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However, on August 19, 2015, a special session of the state legislature voted to move the prison to the northwest side of Salt Lake City. [8] The new facility was completed and the inmates from the former prison were transferred July 11–15, 2022. [4] The former prison officially closed on July 15, 2022.
This is a complete list of state prisons in Utah. There are no federal prisons in Utah and this list does not include county jails located in the state of Utah. As of 2010, Utah eliminated its use of private prisons for state prisoners. [1]
From 1951 to 2022, executions were held at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. The first execution at Utah State was #38 Eliseo J. Mares Jr., and the last execution at Utah State was #51 Ronnie Lee Gardner. [9] From July 2022, executions will be held at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City.
Purgatory Correctional Facility has a typical occupancy of 400 to 500 inmates, with 150 employees and a full-time medical clinic. [4] [5] The estimated cost of the facility, completed in 1998, was $11,570,000. [6] It was designed by the architectural firm of Gillies, Stransky, Brems & Smith of Salt Lake City. [7]
Garcia was allegedly in violation of terms for an earlier jail release related to a class A misdemeanor domestic violence conviction, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Garcia was found unresponsive and alone in his cell. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead, according to Fox13. Jail or Agency: Uintah County Jail; State: Utah
Utah State Prison main complex, December 2007 Promontory Unit of the prison, December 2007. Utah State Prison (USP) was one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. [1] It was located in Draper, Utah, United States, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Salt Lake City. [2]
Police in Herriman — located about 30 miles outside Salt Lake City — confirmed to local outlets ABC4 and KSL-TV that Jacob Johnson, 40, was pulled over by the Saratoga Springs Police ...
Sugar House Prison, previously the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, was a prison in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The 180-acre (73 ha) prison housed more than 400 inmates. It was closed in 1951 due to encroaching housing development, and all of its inmates were moved to the new Utah State Prison in Draper.