Utah

Good Landlord ordinance charges a hefty business license fees to property managers who rent to people with felony convictions within the past four years but allows significant fee reductions to those who do not

Corrections Director Rollin Cook said he is "nervous every day" about staffing levels inside the aged, sprawling facility

Inmate argued that his sentence of death by firing squad is cruel and unusual punishment

Utah state prison officials are recommending that a 79-year-old woman serving a prison sentence in her husband's shooting death be released to a nursing home

Ruben Jay Spencer threatened to stalk the board members, stake out their houses, kidnap their families and blow their wives "to pieces"

The Utah Supreme Court has rejected a ballot effort to stop the state prison from moving, ruling the organizers missed their deadline

A commission overseeing the building of a new state prison in Salt Lake City is set to hold its first meeting Tuesday afternoon

A plan to build a new state prison west of Salt Lake City's airport received final approval Thursday after Gov. Gary Herbert signed legislation approving the move

A state commission chose the site earlier this month after Utah officials debated and studied the issue for years

Trio of Democratic state lawmakers say a move to rebuild Utah's state prison on Salt Lake City's west side will hurt the local economy

Lost privileges such as TV and commissary items, causing some inmates to respond violently

Layton Republican Sen. Jerry Stevenson said that the Prison Relocation Commission could choose one of four sites at a meeting scheduled for Aug 11

Forty-two inmates are participating in the hunger strike that began Friday