After two dangerous criminals escaped from the Daggett County jail last week, the head of state Corrections told a reporter that such criminals are routinely sent to county jails because the main state prison in Salt Lake County is not large enough to hold all of them. With that, I was reminded of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s campaign promise to study the possibility of moving the state prison from its current location to a more remote location and enlarging it.
Since the election, nothing has come of that promise. There has been no such study and no action to alleviate the problem. Was it just a ploy to corner the vote in Salt Lake County's fast-growing southern neighborhoods?
George Sutton
Park City
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