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UPAN Monthly Meeting Utah County Attorney David Leavitt will discuss his proposal for criminal justice reform centered on diversion programs. The program would allow people who've committed minor crimes to complete community service, life classes or drug treatment before charges are filed to help mitigate the mass incarceration issue. Free and open to the public. … [Read more...]

UPAN Monthly Meeting | Topic: Prison Hospice

August 12, 2019 By UPAN

UPAN Monthly Meeting Stephanie Puffer of Bristol Hospice and Utah Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (UHPCO) will discuss possibilities for hospice services at the new Utah State Correctional Facility currently under construction and slated for completion by 2022. Free and open to the public. … [Read more...]

Posted Tuesday June 18th, 2019 - 8:48 pm

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Utah prison system down to 199 open beds as inmate population grows at a rate that the director warns is ‘not sustainable’

In the past 18 months, the population housed in Utah’s state prison system has grown by 362 inmates, Department of Corrections Executive Director Mike Haddon, said Tuesday, bringing the total count to 6,766 people.

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Instead of keeping everyone in there for life a rehabilitaion program that consisted of counseling schooling and training might reduce this issue and give the inmates motivation to do something different with themselves.

Let more people go on parole and work, instead of keeping them in prison on the tax payers bill.

Looks like they should be working on mental health facilities not locking everyone up

Posted Tuesday June 18th, 2019 - 7:53 pm

Here’s a look at why the population of troubled inmates has increased in jails and what’s being done to address the problem: ... See MoreSee Less

Q&A: A look at the issue of mentally ill inmates in jails

The nation’s jails face increasing pressures as they house large numbers of mentally ill and addicted inmates. But the policies that contributed to this problem are decades in the making.

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Posted Tuesday June 18th, 2019 - 12:32 pm

Suicide, long the leading cause of death in U.S. jails, hit a high of 50 deaths for every 100,000 inmates in 2014, the latest year for which the government has released data. That’s 2½ times the rate of suicides in state prisons and about 3½ times that of the general population. ... See MoreSee Less

AP Investigation: Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides

The last time Tanna Jo Fillmore talked with her mother, she was in a Utah jail, angry, pleading and desperate. She’d called every day that past week, begging for help.

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Posted Tuesday June 18th, 2019 - 12:01 pm

A new report by The Council of State Governments Justice Center, with support from Arnold Ventures, reveals the startling extent to which probation and parole violations contribute to states’ high prison admissions and populations, as well as the subsequent cost to taxpayers. #ReentryMatters

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Confined and Costly | CSG Justice Center

Probation and parole are designed to lower prison populations and help people succeed in the community. New data show they are having the opposite effect. Until now, national data regarding the impact of probation violations on prison populations have been unavailable, resulting in a lopsided focus....

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Makes the state a lot of money

Posted Tuesday June 18th, 2019 - 10:06 am

Kyle Martinson, 20, can be heard coughing and calling for help from his jail cell as detention facility officers stand in the hallway nearby hours before his death, caused by complications from pneumonia, according to Coconino County Detention Facility jail footage.

“There’s nothing wrong with you. Drink some water” were the last words a detention facility officer told Martinson before she closed the door to his cell. Martinson would be found unresponsive over two hours later ... See MoreSee Less

Jail footage shows Kyle Martinson yell for help before death

Kyle Martinson, 20, can be heard coughing and calling for help from his jail cell as detention facility officers stand in the hallway nearby hours before his death, caused by

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This stuff happens all the time! And yes if you want to call it a physical in some places when they come in, even if they find something it can be months before something is done. I have seen broken bones get left without care I have seen many things and heard many things working in the system medical is horrible in most places! Thank you for starting to make this public! Word needs to get out

The jails and prisons fo not care about the inmates they are treated like cattle and do not get proper medical attention or even the basic hygiene items if your family can't send money on your books you go without shampoo soap things that you need to be clean in there it is a messed up system and things should be looked at and changed I know anyone who ends up in a jail or prison has to pay for their crime but they are human to and they are somebody's çhild mother father sister brother and it's absolutely appalling what goes on

This happens to much and I know some people have their opinions that the person did something or they would be there but the fact is they are still a human being and there are people that love them

That’s some bullshit omg wtf is wrong with these guards .

Why does this keep happening??

Isn’t there a “physical” of sorts that takes place as they get admitted? I mean if they had lice and other things, spreading it to jailers and inmates would be bad! Maybe we should step that program up?

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