County jails offer felons pathways to new lives

The Utah Department of Corrections has contracted

with jails to house state inmates for decades. Currently, 2,000
about a quarter of the state's prison population of Note: Salt Lake County
does not contract with
nearly 6,500 inmates is housed in county jails. The the Department of
arrangement gives inmates access to core treatment, Corrections
more individualized attention and, often, opportunities
for additional education and vocational training. It also
allows counties to increase employment and boost the
local economy, sheriffs say.
County jails’ total beds and, of that total, the
number available for state inmates* 1,184

1,200
TOTAL BEDS Note: Utah County does
not contract with the
AT COUNTY Department of
926
JAILS Corrections

NUMBER OF
CONTRACT BEDS FOR
STATE INMATES 164 366
Counties that do not
contract to house 40
state inmates B
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506 396 Cac
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64 Lak
208 e 166Su
Mil Uta Wa mm 35 384
lard 128 h satc it
142 88 h
150 Dag 86**
200 Bea 76 Duc get
10 ver 55 h e t
70 San Car sne
pet bon 85
Iron e
Sev
Piu ier 248
Wa
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166 Gar Gra 60
fiel nd
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e 10 **All state
116 inmates were
*Number of beds removed from the
available in fiscal year San 110 Daggett County Jail
2017 for state inmates Jua on Feb. 17, 2017,
as contracted through n following allegations
the Inmate Placement of misconduct by jail
Program (IPP). officials.

County jails’ state inmate head counts, program offerings and in-house jobs
COUNTY INMATE HEAD COUNT (SEPTEMBER) PROGRAMS AND/OR ACHIEVEMENTS JOBS DIPLOMAS#
Beaver 355 121 inmates completed substance abuse treatment 75 28
Box Elder 14 Community service work, educational classes 21 0
Cache 31 46 beds for Rio Grande Initiative, educational classes 49 1
Daggett (all inmates removed in Feb. 2017) — — —
Davis 35 46 beds for Rio Grande; 4 completed drug program 34 6
Duchesne 53 28 inmates completed applied technology program 96 0
Garfield 90 29 inmates completed substance abuse treatment 68 1
Grand (jail was being renovated) Educational classes 8 0
Iron 9 Educational classes for culinary, maintenance work 12 0
Juab 9 Laundry, food service/distribution, janitorial work 20 0
Kane 158 31 inmates completed substance abuse treatment 66 3
Millard 45 13 inmates completed substance abuse treatment 22 0
San Juan 69 23 inmates completed sex-offender therapy 57 2
Sanpete 69 24 inmates completed sex-offender therapy 26 0
Sevier 48 Community service, computer training 29 3
Summit 32 Laundry, food service, interpreters, service projects 25 0
Uintah 107 Life skills classes, sex offender therapy preparation 45 2
Wasatch 37 Community service, substance abuse treatment 37 1
Washington 137 Community service, gardening, art projects 103 3
Weber 52 11 inmates completed substance abuse treatment 62 5
Source: “Jail programs, Utah Department of Corrections,” January 2018 #Number of high school diplomas bestowed to inmates in fiscal year 2017.
RESEARCHED BY MARIAH NOBLE, GRAPHIC BY TODD ADAMS | The Salt Lake Tribune