Utah Department of Corrections
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Utah Department of Corrections, or UDC, is a government agency
dedicated to the management and supervision of convicted felons
in the State of Utah
. It is currently led by the Executive Director Tom Patterson. It has its headquarters in the Utah Department of Corrections Administration Building in Draper
.
and the Utah State Prison
. The state also sends more than 1,000 inmates out to county jail facilities around Utah through a jail contracting program.
Government agency
A government or state agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types...
dedicated to the management and supervision of convicted felons
Felony
A felony is a serious crime in the common law countries. The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods; other crimes were called misdemeanors...
in the State of Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
. It is currently led by the Executive Director Tom Patterson. It has its headquarters in the Utah Department of Corrections Administration Building in Draper
Draper, Utah
Draper is a city in Salt Lake and Utah Counties in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Between 1990 and 2000 Draper was Utah's fastest-growing city over 5,000 people . Its population in 1990 was 7,143 and had grown to 25,220 by the 2000 census...
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Adult Probation and Parole
This division has four Community Correctional Centers: Bonneville, Fremont, Orange Street, and one in Northern Utah. Boundaries are divided into six regions. Each region has agents and correctional officers who perform a variety of functions in the courts and in the field.Division of Administrative Services
This division is housed in the Utah Department of Corrections Administration Building and manages the UDC Corrections Training Academy.Division of Facilities Construction & Management
Managed by the department-wide Division of Facilities Construction & Management, this division manages construction and maintenance to UDC facilities.Division of Institutional Operations
The Division of Institutional Operations or DIO manages the State of Utah's two primary correctional facilities, including the Central Utah Correctional FacilityCentral Utah Correctional Facility
The Central Utah Correctional Facility is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It is located in Gunnison, Utah in the central part of the state. The prison was completed in 1990 and has a capacity for 1,125 prisoners.Commonly...
and the Utah State Prison
Utah State Prison
Utah State Prison, or USP, is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It is located in Draper, Utah, United States, about 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.-History:...
. The state also sends more than 1,000 inmates out to county jail facilities around Utah through a jail contracting program.
Training
This division is responsible for providing staff and managers appropriate training to ensure employees are prepared to carry out appropriate duties, and supervisors are equipped to manage their staff.Utah Correctional Industries
UCI employs prison inmates who work to produce goods such as signs, furniture and embroidery. UCI mostly provides goods and services for governmental agencies, though it also contracts with various private industry businesses on certain projects. UCI runs a horse gentling operation, which is a partnership with the Bureau of Land Management.Programming
The Division of Programming supplies education, cognitive restructuring, sex-offender treatment, substance-abuse treatment, and various other services to offenders both inside the prison facilities, or those in the field on supervision under the purview of Adult Probation & Parole.Fallen officers
Since the establishment of the Utah Department of Corrections, 5 officers have died in the line of duty.See also
- List of United States state correction agencies
- List of law enforcement agencies in Utah
- List of Utah state prisons
- PrisonPrisonA prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...