By C1 Staff
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A commission has approved six sites for a new Utah state prison.
Good4utah reports that moving the state prison will cost nearly $1 billion, affect millions, and now it seems that most cities want nothing to do with it. Still, officials are moving forward.
The current site in Draper has become too industrialized.
“We’re not necessarily interested in repeating history. We’d love to see some mountain ranges, federal land, bodies of water – something that would keep the encroachment that has occurred in the current site from repeating again,” said one commission member.
Rep. Brad Wilson, the Prison Relocation Comission Chair, said that it’s imperative to get this relocation right, as it’s the biggest non-highway, capital project in the history of the state of Utah.
The list will be narrowed down further from its current six in a meeting scheduled on Dec. 22.