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Feb 1, 2024 · The Utah State Correctional Facility (USCF) officially began operations in July 2022. This 200-acre correctional facility is located five miles west of the Salt Lake City International Airport.
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It’s footprint is 1.3 million square feet, spanning about 170 acres, inside and outside the area’s secure perimeter. The prison site is located about 9 miles west of the Salt Lake City International Airport — so far north of I-80 it’s barely visible to drivers despite its size. To develop that remote, mosquito-riddled area, state and Salt Lake City...
Originally, state leaders budgeted $650 million for the new prison. But that price tag swelled to what’s now pegged at about $1 billion. Jim Russell, director of Utah’s Division of Facilities Construction and Management, expects the final construction cost to come in “just a little bit under or a little bit over” $1 billion, depending on final proc...
Construction of the new prison is slated to be finished by the end of February, according to Ambre, though he notes construction deadlines can change. Inmates, however, aren’t scheduled to move in until June, leaving several months to allow for testing and refinement of the prison’s complex electronic security system. Plus, the Department of Correc...
The new prison’s designers based the structure and utility of the new Utah State Prison on one key concept: behavior. “It has everything to do with behavior in this facility,” Ambre told the Deseret News on a tour of the new prison last month. “It has nothing to do with your sentence.” Better behaved inmates will be placed in dorm-style, shared liv...
In short, development and financial pressuresprompted the move. For 60 years, the prison’s current facilities have locked up over 600 acres of prime real estate. It’s located near the Point of the Mountain, where I-15 wraps around the Wasatch foothills to connect Salt Lake County, Utah’s most populous county, with Utah County, home to the state’s t...
Learn about the nearly $1 billion project to build a new prison from scratch in Salt Lake City, replacing the old one in Draper. Find out how big, how secure, and when it will open and be demolished.
Utah State Prison (USP) was one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It was located in Draper, Utah , United States, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Salt Lake City . [2]
Utah State Correctional Facility (USCF) is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Prison Operations. It is located in the northwestern corner of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It replaced the former Utah State Prison in July 2022.
Jun 23, 2022 · The new 200-acre facility west of Salt Lake City International Airport will replace the old prison in Draper, which will be developed into a major economic hub. The new prison aims to provide a safer and more rehabilitative environment for those who are incarcerated and a better quality of life for nearby residents.
