A public records request filed by KSL-TV shows at least 22 assault reports have been filed since the first one at the Utah State Correctional Facility between mid-July and early February.
SALT LAKE CITY — Three days after the Utah Department of Corrections celebrated the move of 2,464 inmates to the new state prison facility with its new "direct supervision" model and daylight-focused design, a report was filed of an assault on an officer.
"How would you like to wonder what's going to happen to you at work? If you're going to be assaulted, if you're going to come home? What are the things that could happen today?" Bennion asked. "It's a huge risk, and it's been growing since we went into the new facility at ."The assaults of three Department of Corrections officers over the past two weeks at the new Utah State Prison has caught the attention of lawmakers.
According to the report, other inmates had to jump in to stop the attack. They helped the sergeant by physically shielding him and pushed the attacker away until officers could arrive., is playing a huge role in the number of assaults. With the prison hundreds of officers short, he explained that the direct supervision model — in which an officer is stationed in an open setting with inmates — isn't working as intended.
Parole agents from across the state and corrections officers have to fill in the understaffing gaps with mandatory overtime, Bennion explained, often working posts or shifts they aren't used to working and pulling 140 hours in a two-week span. According to the parole agent and another officer working alongside him, the inmate got upset because he thought the agent was laughing at him and decided to attack. After a trip to a medical facility, the agent was left to recuperate in a hotel room because he was so far from home.
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