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Utah House passes bill creating earlier notifications for prison overcrowding
Summary
The House approved HB 10 to redefine prison capacity thresholds and create staged notifications to executive leadership and the Board of Pardons before emergency releases, aiming to give officials time to manage inmate population pressures without changing release procedures.
The Utah House passed legislation on Jan. 24 that redesigns how the state tracks and responds to prison population pressure, creating stepped notifications to officials before emergency releases occur.
Representative Hutchings, who sponsored House Bill 10, told colleagues the measure creates three definitions: maximum capacity (every funded bed), operational capacity (96.5 percent of funded beds) and emergency release capacity (98 percent). Under the bill, the Department of…
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