Prisoner advocates are raising concerns about a new bill that would remove the state's requirement to use tiered housing at ...

A groundbreaking documentary — conceived, filmed, and produced entirely by inmates at the Utah State Prison — is giving the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Five transgender inmates at the Utah State Prison are suing the state for allegedly preventing them from receiving needed hormone therapy. Virginia Tucker, Stephanie Dombroski, Sandy ...

Utah just built a new prison on the west-side of the city and now lawmakers are looking for funding to expand.

$130 million of your money is being requested for Utah prison expansion, just several years after the state spent more than a billion dollars on a new prison.Th ...

In 2007, I wrote that convicted murderer Robert Cameron Houston was "the first juvenile offender to enter the Utah State Prison with no hope of dying anywhere but in prison." The... In 2007, I wrote ...

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff was in a hospital room being treated for cancer when he let emotions take over and vowed not to appeal the exoneration of an inmate serving a life sentence for a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A man sentenced to the Utah State Prison a year ago for his role in the murder of a 15-year-old boy is now facing new charges. Xavior Lunt, 19, was charged Friday in 3rd District ...

A team of researchers at the University of Utah was awarded $8 million to launch the nation’s first center dedicated solely to prison education research and leadership. “It’s huge. I’m not sure it’s ...