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| More Utah women staying in prison, but the state has a plan |
| By sltrib.com - Brooke Adams |
| Published: 07/22/2013 |
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Kristell Thomas has been down this road before. She spent several years in prison, went to the Orange Street Community Correctional Center in Salt Lake City, got out, got in trouble again and landed back in prison last summer. In January, Thomas returned to Orange Street, Utah’s halfway house for women offenders and is now preparing to leave again. For good, she says. "I’m just finished," she said. "I’m done beating myself up. I’m done breaking my family’s hearts. I want a good life." Figuring out how to keep women like Thomas from coming back to prison is a priority for the Utah Department of Corrections, which has seen the female inmate population consistently exceed capacity — the point at which 96.5 percent of the 671 beds allocated for women are occupied — during the first half of 2013. In May and June, it even surpassed the 671, forcing the prison to dip into surplus funds to house women at county jails. Read More. |
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