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Article: Daggett County Jail problems called systemic
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2007
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The Utah Department of Corrections has completed its
investigation into security lapses at the Daggett County Jail that
allowed a pair of killers to escape.
"We could say it was systemic," corrections chief Tom Patterson
said in an interview with the Deseret Morning News. "It needed to
have an overall review. It was that way when the inmates escaped."
On Tuesday, Patterson traveled to Manila to review the
investigation results with county officials there. Inmates at the
Daggett County Jail have been in lockdown since last week when
convicted murderers Juan Diaz-Arevalo and Danny Gallegos slipped
through an unlocked door, over a razor wire fence and into the
mountains nearby.
The pair were ...