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For one of the most expensive construction projects in state history, concerned taxpayers say they don’t believe even the minimum standard of living conditions are being met in the new state prison.
A career criminal whose crimes include a child kidnapping conviction has filed a federal lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections contending that he is entitled to decent medical care.
SALT LAKE CITY An inmate in the Utah State Prison is suing the Utah Department of Corrections in an effort to stop the shuffling of large groups of prisoners from one building to the next.
Damon Crist says the practice spurred widespread COVID-19 outbreaks at the prison starting in October. The spread has continued in the following months, infecting more than 2,600 inmates, including 12 who later died. I m not asking for money damages. I m not asking to be released, Crist told the Deseret News during a phone call from the prison s Draper site. I m just saying, Look, the department is moving people recklessly. It s causing mass outbreaks and it s infecting and killing people.