People are Dying in Utah Jails
Listen now
Description
On December 1st, 2016, 21-year-old Madison Jensen died of heroin withdrawal in the Duchesne County Jail. She’d been violently ill, but no one in the jail did anything about it. Her death is part of a pattern — because Utah has seen more inmate deaths per capita in the last few years than any other state in the nation. And the way Utah jails are run is mostly kept secret. There have been some changes since KUER’s Whittney Evans reported this story. The Utah legislature passed a bill during the
More Episodes
Did you miss More To Say this week? Us, too. That’s because we’ve come to the end of the podcast’s first season. Last November, More To Say started with a story about a Mormon man sharing his troubles with pornography. Since then, we introduced you to a group of moms who meet at Village Inn to...
Published 06/19/18
President Donald Trump ran for office promising to build a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The wall is projected to cost billions of dollars. But even if Trump gets congress to pony up the money, he’ll still have to deal with the people who actually own the border. See, the United...
Published 06/07/18
President Donald Trump ran for office promising to build a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The wall is projected to cost billions of dollars. But even if Trump gets congress to pony up the money, he’ll still have to deal with the people who actually own the border. See, the United...
Published 06/07/18