Utah State Prison

Utah State Prison
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LocationEntrance to the Wasatch Facility of the prison, June 2007
Coordinates40°29.5′N 111°54′W / 40.4917°N 111.900°W / 40.4917; -111.900
Statusclosed
Security classmixed
Capacityover 4000
Opened1951
ClosedJuly 15, 2022
Managed byUtah Department of Corrections
DirectorBrian Nielsen
Street address14425 Bitterbrush Lane
CityDraper
State/provinceUtah
ZIP Code84020
CountryUnited States
Utah State Prison main complex, December 2007
Promontory Unit of the prison, December 2007

Utah State Prison (USP) was one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It was located in Draper, Utah, United States, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Salt Lake City. It was replaced by the Utah State Correctional Facility in July 2022.

History

The prison was built to replace Sugar House Prison, which closed in 1951. Its location was once remote and the nearby communities were rural. Since the prison's erection, business parks and residential neighborhoods have developed the once rural area into a suburban one. Seeking the ability to offer better treatment option state legislature initiated a process to build a new prison, deciding it was best to relocate elsewhere. Several sites were under consideration. An episode of Touched by an Angel was filmed here in 2001. A study was completed in 2005 by Wikstrom Economic & Planning Consultants, Inc., to determine if moving the prison would be feasible. The test of feasibility was whether or not the value of the real estate of the current location could support the cost of relocation. It was determined that the cost of relocating the prison far exceeded the value that could be realized from the sale of the Draper prison site. However, on August 19, 2015, a special session of the state legislature voted to move the prison to the west side of Salt Lake City. The prison is now closed.

Facility

The large prison complex housed both male and female prisoners in separate units. The prison had a capacity of over 4,000 inmates. The Draper site was located near Point of the Mountain along the Traverse Ridge and consists of several units named after surrounding mountains and mountain ranges. These units range from minimum security to supermax. The Uintas housed maximum security units for male inmates and included a supermax facility and execution chamber. Wasatch and Oquirrhs housed the medium security male inmates. Promontory was a medium security therapeutic community designed to treat drug abusers. Timpanogos housed female inmates and Olympus was the mental health unit. Lone Peak was a minimum security unit.

Scott P. Evans Architect & Associates designed the five buildings of the evaluation facility. The same company performed a reroof and a seismic upgrade of the SSD building.

Notable inmates

See also


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