The department recently completed a security review of all 21 county jails that the state contracts with. The review was ordered after convicted murderers Danny Gallegos and Juan Diaz-Arevalo escaped from the Daggett County Jail and were on the run for six days, until they were captured in Rock Springs, Wyo.

Corrections officials have said that all of the audited jails had security problems but none rose to the level of Daggett County's. The state pulled all of its inmates from the rural Utah jail after discovering cameras and doors weren't working properly, and one staff member was sick while on duty. Corrections officials have said a building within the jail yard had no security at all.

One of the jailers on duty resigned in the wake of the escapes.

The lapses enabled Gallegos and Diaz-Arevalo to walk out a door, scale a fence and run away.

The Daggett County Jail has been attempting to make changes after the escape. Officials are interviewing for a new jail commander and ordering security upgrades, corrections spokesman Jack Ford said Monday.

"They have ordered some of the required cameras, concertina wire," he said. "We're just waiting. As soon as they say they've got things taken care of, we're ready to put inmates back there. But we need to have a secure facility."

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