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Campus Events

Utah Prison Education Project partners with BYU

By Eleanor Lambert
March 18, 2024 12:00 AM
The University of Utah Prison Education Project, known as UPEP, is partnering with BYU to bring more education opportunities to BYU students and incarcerated students.
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Local

Elizabeth Smart says kidnapper being released still a threat

By Associated Press
September 14, 2018 12:00 AM
Elizabeth Smart arrives for a news conference Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Smart says it appears there is no viable, legal recourse she can take to stop the release of one of her kidnappers. Smart said at a news conference Thursday in Salt Lake City that she only found out about 72-year-old Wanda Barzee's release shortly before the public did. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Nation

Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open

By Associated Press
January 31, 2018 12:00 AM
In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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State

HB106: bill would allow offenders education program rather than incarceration

By Lilian Whitney
January 31, 2018 12:00 AM
HB106 would allow qualifying offenders to attend a technical college instead of being incarcerated . (AP Photo / Jeremy Redmon)
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Nation

News roundup: Monday, Nov. 21

November 20, 2016 12:00 AM
Utah
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Opinion Outpost

Opinion Outpost Mar. 1

By Sarah Burchett
March 01, 2016 12:00 AM
Closing Gitmo
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Local

West Salt Lake prison due for completion in 2020

By Zoe Woolf Mcginn
January 13, 2016 12:00 AM
A prison project management team reviewed a construction timeline and site considerations for a new prison in west Salt Lake City and said it could be finished as early as July 2020.
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World

Mexican president: drug lord Chapo Guzman re-arrested

January 08, 2016 12:00 AM
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced Friday that fugitive drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was recaptured six months after he escaped from a maximum security prison.
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Breaking News

NYC mayor pushes bail reforms after police officer's slaying

October 23, 2015 12:00 AM
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio participate in a media briefing in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. (Associated Press)
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Nation

Senators introduce landmark bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015

By Beau Jones
October 16, 2015 12:00 AM
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, left, gestures that it is time to leave a news conference with a bipartisan group of Senators who spoke about criminal justice reform, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Local

While you were away: Utah news updates

By Cassidy Hansen
September 02, 2015 12:00 AM
Policy changes and breaking news affected the Utah community while many students were home for summer vacation. Here's a quick recap of some of the most important events.
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Local

News briefs Aug. 20

By Erica Palmer
August 20, 2015 12:00 AM
Yemen on the brink of food crisis
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State

Inside the gates of the Draper Prison

By Megan Kennedy
June 15, 2015 12:00 AM
Upon entering the women's correctional facility at the Utah State Prison one finds a small, cramped room with no air conditioning, no light and no space.
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Local

Citizens rally to keep prison out of Tooele County

By Megan Kennedy
May 29, 2015 12:00 AM
No Prison in Tooele County co-founders Jewel Allen and Katrina Hill organized the rally preceding the Prison Relocation Commission information session.
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Local

Residents in potential prison relocations sites continue to express dissatisfaction

By Megan Kennedy
May 22, 2015 12:00 AM
The Utah State Prison in Draper is under consideration for relocation. the Prison Relocation Commission will hold information sessions int he coming months to help and questions and disseminate information
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Sports

Ex-NFL player Aaron Hernandez convicted of murder, gets life

April 15, 2015 12:00 AM
Former New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez listens as the guilty verdict is read during his murder trial, Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River, Mass. Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Odin Lloyd in June 2013. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. (Dominick Reuter/Pool Photo via AP)
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