Prisoner advocates warned against allowing rival gangs to mingle. Now an inmate who was injured is suing.
Yeager Gleave’s lawsuit says prison officials “anticipated, orchestrated and encouraged a gladiator encounter.”
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Roni Wilcox talks about the situation that lead to the lawsuit filed by her 21-year-old son, Yeager Gleave, a former inmate, who is suing the former head of the Utah Department of Corrections, saying a policy change that allowed rival gangs to share common areas led to him being injured in a fight at the state prison in Gunnison. Thursday, April 1, 2021.
| April 6, 2021, 3:35 a.m.