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Article: All state inmates taken from Daggett County Jail
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2007
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The Utah Department of Corrections removed all 45 remaining state
inmates from the Daggett County Jail Wednesday evening after two
convicted killers managed to escape from the rural Utah facility.
The decision led to the inmates' placement in the Draper and
Gunnison state prisons and was the result of security and management
concerns associated with the Daggett County Jail, said corrections'
executive director Tom Patterson.
"Because security concerns related to this facility and its
management remain presently unresolved, it is prudent to withdraw
all state inmates from the Daggett County Jail in the interest of
public safety. It is our hope that concerns regarding security
oversight, jail ...