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New prison 'would be a question for sure' unless facility moves, corrections official says
By deseretnews.com- Lisa Riley Roche
Published: 06/12/2015

UTAH STATE PRISON — Sitting up in one of the narrow beds crammed against the walls in a nearly 50-year-old building that serves as a makeshift geriatric unit, inmate Francis McKay said he knows where the new prison should be built.

"Right here," McKay tells a group of reporters on a tour of the prison Thursday.

Several of the inmates in surrounding beds offer the same answer even faster than McKay, but they're hard to hear above the whirring of fans set up to cool the stuffy dormitory-like room in the prison's oldest Oquirrh building.

"We've got enough land to build a new prison right here," McKay said, describing what he's seen after spending the past 20 years "off and on" in prison, currently for a parole violation after serving time for aggravated sex abuse of a child.

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