Utah State Prison News

A former Utah State Prison guard says she has information about who killed Rosie Tapia.

A federal judge has dismissed a long-standing lawsuit against the Utah State Prison, filed by an inmate who claims he was retaliated against for wearing too-short shorts.

An inmate at the Utah State Prison in Draper suffered a puncture wound to the head during an apparent stabbing Saturday afternoon.

Utah's state archaeologist Kevin Jones holds a dart point found at the "prison site" near the Utah State Prison on the Jordan River.

Richard Bash received the maximum sentence today for killing Wendy Kerbs on May 13 as she worked in her yard in Roy.

Corrections officials say a Utah State Prison inmate whose 2007 jail break sparked a weeklong manhunt has died in an apparent suicide.

One of the men who escaped from the Daggett County Jail in 2007 killed himself in his cell late Sunday night.

The Utah State Prison has lifted their quarantine on a dormitory after tests results for the H1N1 flu virus returned negative.

A Utah State Prison unit is under quarantine after six inmates were suspected of having the novel H1N1 influenza, otherwise known as swine flu.

A 50-bed housing unit at the Utah State Prison is under quarantine as medical officials await test results for the swine flu.

Two investigators from the Davis County Attorney's office interviewed convicted murder Edward Lewis Owens at the Utah State Prison this week following up on Owens' claim that the victim's husband had solicited him to murder her.

Wearing a striped shirt, a white T-shirt and jeans, previously convicted murderer David Jonathan Valken-LeDuc walked out of the Davis County Jail Tuesday afternoon, his time in prison ended by a judge's ruling.

Among the roughly 6,500 denizens of the Utah State Prison system, virtually all will be released some day.

The Joint Criminal Apprehension Team arrested one of Utah's 15 Top Most Wanted in Syracuse Wednesday.

Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently seized this methamphetamine in a recent sting.

Eduardo Barba, an inmate at the Utah Sate Prison at Point of the Mountain, was among 115 graduates of the Salt Lake Community College on Thursday morning.

Judge Bruce Lubeck has sentenced a Midway man to between 1 and 15 years in state prison in a sexual-abuse case stemming from an illicit relationship he briefly had with a mentally disabled woman he worked with at a Park City grocery store.

A white supremacist gang member was sentenced to what could be life in prison for stabbing a man in a parking lot.

Ronald Howard Brown passed away May 6, 2009. Ron was born October 13, 1948, to Keith Chapin and Geneva Burdett Brown in Salt Lake City, UT.

The apparent leader of a home invasion robbery that resulted in the shooting death of one of the intruders has been arrested thanks to the work of several police agencies.