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| Audit blames Corrections for escapes |
| By The Salt Lake Tribune |
| Published: 08/28/2008 |
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UTAH - Last September's Daggett County jailbreak is just one of five escapes that might have been prevented had the Department of Corrections properly managed a prison-sharing contract with county jails. That's according to a new legislative audit that lambastes Corrections for, among other things, learning of security problems at the Daggett County Jail in 2000, but failing to correct them for seven years. During that time, five inmates escaped the jail - three in 2004 and two in a 2007 incident in which two convicted murderers walked out of an unlocked door, climbed a fence with no alarm and disappeared for five hours before anyone realized they were gone. Those two men were captured by Wyoming authorities after six days on the lam, but not before they bound a man with duct tape at knife point and stole his vehicle. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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