Nearly a dozen people have filed a civil lawsuit claiming serious violent acts were committed against them or their loved ones because of the 'gross negligence' and 'willful misconduct' of the Utah Department of Corrections and Adult Probation and Parole.
SALT LAKE CITY — Farrell Bartschi was 82, but his daughter says he was still very healthy and his family has a history of living well into their 90s.
Dixon isn't the only one who feels they were failed by the state. On Monday, nearly a dozen people — representing victims in six separate violent crimes — filed a civil lawsuit in 3rd District Court claiming serious violent acts were committed against them or their loved ones because of the "gross negligence" and "willful misconduct" of the Utah Department of Corrections and Adult Probation and Parole.
In 2015, the Justice Reinvestment Initiative was created in Utah and is designed to "reduce incarceration time for nonviolent individuals who pose little risk and who successfully complete approved programs." The lawsuit says the program, however, is not designed to release violent offenders. "Since at least 2019, AP&P's difficulties in maintaining proper supervision and oversight of paroled offenders under their correctional jurisdiction has been known by state legislative leaders and other public officials.
Attorney Peter Sorensen says he spoke personally with a whistleblower who "told me very, very scary stories about the meetings he was in where he was directly and indirectly threatened, as well as everyone in that meeting, that if they told what AP&P had not been doing or had been lying about doing, there would be serious ramifications — and possibly they would never be heard from again. This is a very serious situation.
"It goes far beyond that in this case. There may be some of that. But we know, largely through these whistleblowers and through the investigation that has gone on, that even if there is some of that, there's way worse going on. There's lies, there's evidence being destroyed, there's evidence being fabricated, records being made up. This isn't a situation where, 'Hey, we don't have enough people. Our bad. We own up to that and admit it.
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