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New clue may lead to Rosie Tapia's killer

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

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Related Topix: Prison, Violent Crime, State Prisons, Salt Lake City, UT

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Deseret News

Inmate's short shorts suit dismissed

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.

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Related Topix: Prison, State Prisons

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Salt Lake Tribune

Inmate hospitalized after attack at prison

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

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Related Topix: State Prisons, Prison, Utah Government, Utah

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Salt Lake Tribune

Utah scientists questions Ruess findings

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

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Related Topix: Utah, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science, State Prisons, Prison, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Standard-Examiner

Bash sentenced 1 to 15 years for killing Roy woman

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

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Related Topix: Roy, UT, State Prisons, Prison, Weber County, UT

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Kutv.com

Utah Inmate Found Hanged in Cell

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

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Related Topix: Prison, State Prisons

Mon Jun 22, 2009

KSL TV

5. Former escaped inmate hangs self in prison

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

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Related Topix: Prison, Daggett County, UT, State Prisons, Manila, UT

2News Local News

Quarantine Lifted at Utah Prison

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

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Related Topix: State Prisons, Utah Government, Utah

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Deseret News

Flu fears force quarantine

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

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Related Topix: Prison, State Prisons, Central Utah Correctional Facility, Gunnison, UT

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Kutv.com

Swine Flu Fears Prompt Quarantine at Utah Prison

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

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Related Topix: State Prisons, Prison

Standard.net

Investigators interview Owens on murder-for-hire claim

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.

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Related Topix: Davis County, UT, State Prisons, Prison, Farmington, UT, Woods Cross, UT

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Standard-Examiner

Judge orders LeDuc released

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.

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Related Topix: Davis County, UT, Kaysville, UT, Woods Cross, UT, Criminal Defense Law, Law, State Prisons, Prison

Mon Jun 08, 2009

Standard-Examiner

Rapist not getting out

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

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Related Topix: State Prisons, Prison, Box Elder County, UT, Corinne, UT

Fri Jun 05, 2009

Standard.net

Officials catch one of Utah's Most Wanted in Syracuse

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

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Related Topix: Syracuse, UT, Farmington, UT, State Prisons, Prison

Sun May 24, 2009

Salt Lake Tribune

Methamphetamine quality down in Utah

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

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Related Topix: Drugs, Sundance Film Festival, Drug Enforcement Administration, Prison, State Prisons

Fri May 22, 2009

Salt Lake Tribune

Inmate excels in prison educational programs

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.

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Related Topix: Prison, Utah Government, Utah, State Prisons

Thu May 21, 2009

Park Record

Man sexually abused mentally disabled woman

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.

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Related Topix: Midway, UT, State Prisons, Prison, Park City, UT, Summit County, UT

Tue May 19, 2009

Deseret Morning News

Gang member sentenced to prison in '08 stabbing

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

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Related Topix: State Prisons, Prison, Utah Government, Utah

Mon May 11, 2009

TheSpectrum.com

Ronald Howard Brown 'Ron'

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.

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Related Topix: Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), State Prisons, Prison

Fri May 08, 2009

Deseret News

Woman arrested in robbery

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.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Salt Lake County, UT, State Prisons, Prison

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