Utah's prison was at one point the largest and most expensive detention project in the nation, but since its groundbreaking other larger projects have been set into motion, including New York City ...

The new Utah State Prison is pictured in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 21. (Photo: Jacob Njord, state of Utah) 1. How big is it? It's footprint is 1.3 million square feet, spanning about 170 ...

The new prison is near 7200 West and Interstate 80 in Salt Lake City. The area, known as the northwest quadrant, is relatively undeveloped, and that presented Ambre with his first challenge.

SALT LAKE CITY — Costs are going up to build the new Utah State Prison and the new facility won’t open until 2022, state officials said Friday. At a briefing on the progress of the new prison ...

The new Utah prison site — which sits on ecologically sensitive wetlands — created a conflict between prisoner safety and comfort amid swarming mosquitoes and the future of the Great Salt Lake ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Two Utah legislators who toured the state's new prison say they were encouraged by what they saw there despite staffing shortages. “It seem like the staff is really happy out ...

The cost to build the new Utah state prison in Salt Lake City is expected to cost more than $100 million above the last estimate, and as a cost-cutting measure, it will now be smaller than the ...

The Utah Department of Corrections is now officially preparing for the firing squad execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, the 67-year-old inmate sentenced to death row for the kidnapping and murder of ...

(KUTV)- Fresh cost estimate for the new Utah State Prison is nearly $700 million. “We are not just rebuilding our prison,” Paul Edwards, deputy chief of staff to Governor Herbert, said.

This summer marked the second anniversary of the opening of the new Utah State Correctional Facility. Relocating the state prison from the aging facility in Draper was an important decision for ...