Utah State Prison News

Polygamist vs. Polygamist FLDS Church exiles battle for the hearts and homes of the polygamous faithful.

A 37-year-old man has been found competent to stand trial for the murder of Suzanne Fry.

A prisoner at the Utah State Prison in Draper has been charged with homicide in connection with strangling his cellmate with a laundry bag tie last month.

Brian David Mitchell and a murderous polygamous family patriarch shared many similar traits and operated in very similar ways, an expert on religious cults and their members who commit crimes testified Wednesday.

Convicted of murder, polygamist leader Ervil LeBaron died at the Utah State Prison in 1981.

A prisoner at the Utah State Prison in Draper was arrested Sunday for allegedly killing his cell mate.

A fight between two inmates Sunday resulted in one person dead and another facing additional charges.

A fight between two inmates Sunday left one person dead and another facing additional charges.

A 3rd District Court judge on Friday ordered a West Valley City mother who beat her 7-year-old boy with a sandal, belt and kitchen spatula earlier this year to leave the country and pay a fine in connection with the crime.

Trouble In Palmer Court Mad House: Low-income housing tenants complain of mentally unstable residents.

An Iron County Jail inmate was sentenced 10 years to life in the Utah State Prison Monday after being charged with aggravated kidnapping and assault of an officer.

ST. GEORGE - Adam Christopher Kelly, 29, of St. George will serve 180 days in the Washington County Jail following agreement in 5th District Court on how to balance justice for the child victim of a sexual assault and the treatment needs of the perpetrator.

A section of the Utah State Prison was on lockdown following a fistfight among several prisoners Tuesday night.

A young man described as the ringleader of a violent home invasion in Orem in October 2008 was sentenced Monday to prison.

A Las Vegas man who robbed a Provo pharmacy after chatting with store employees for more than an hour was sentenced last week to at least five years in prison.

A Las Vegas man who robbed a Provo pharmacy after chatting with store employees for more than an hour was sentenced Monday to at least five years in prison.

Up until he turned 18, Arron Nathaneal Harrison was "a really good kid" - the kind of kid who never gave his father any problems.

An early Tuesday morning chase ended with a wanted white supremacist gang member in the custody of Salt Lake County sheriff's deputies.

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A former Murray attorney escaped his third conviction in two months for driving under the influence when a jury found him not guilty on Monday.