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Legislative audit finds continuing deficiencies in prison health care; committee opens bill to address improvements
Summary
A Legislative Auditor General follow‑up audit found continuing clinical, documentation and controlled‑substance management problems at the Utah State Correctional Facility and recommended another in‑depth review; the committee opened a bill file to pursue correctional health reforms.
The Legislative Auditor General presented a second in‑depth follow‑up audit of correctional health services that identified significant progress in administrative processes but continuing clinical and compliance gaps at the Utah State Correctional Facility. "In 2021 and 2023, our office made a total of 25 recommendations… 18 recommendations are still in process and only 7 have been implemented," said Brian Dean, legislative deputy auditor general. The audit team said a physician consultant who reviewed a 50‑chart sample concluded that 50 percent of reviewed cases had inadequate or inappropriate care (the audit noted the figure…
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