Show report shows added expenditure bec because use of building delay belay imprisonment of criminals convicted of a felony and committed to the mail state prison I 1 Is now costing coating the state 0 of utah approximately 1 11 million an dually ea cording to a research report report released today by uta foundation I tile the nonprofit non profit tax research agency the costi may bo be expected to increase substantially before adequate facil facilities lileo and personnel peri onnel are available tor for the I 1 detention and rehabilitation of individuals by y the courts to bo be dangerous to society the study indicates Po pointing lilting put out that the sugarhouse prison site and most moat of the buildings were given alvon to utah by the federal federa 1 government at tile the time utah was admitted to tile the union tile the ui V foundation oun dation report report states that tha the average prison population has exceeded the rated prison capacity nearly every year since the tha nor mal inal capacity la is stated to be inan aies the average number ot of prisoners in 1946 jo J 01 and wag ISO for 1048 1948 ii r the utah foundation study emphasizes tile he costliness of ill the long 0 I 1 buildt hg delay in building the now how prison at all tho ot mo location A legisla tive ommittee appointed in 1929 becom mended acquisition of the new site and construction of the he prison facilities adequate tor for 00 prisoner at jin estimated cost of if 1 was 1037 1937 before pt othise hise 0 of O f the ahe sub site was authorized anda construe construction toW did not begin until 1940 construction was discontinued during fhe he war years thus twenty years after the bow now project was recommended om mended by the legislative committee appointed to study the erlem utah has spent nearly IIA H Ool dollars larg and i another nn other I 1 ja 1 l million all tie be needled needed ja to complete fa c il etim nil all of ahli c b could havo been procured for il i million dollars had construction construct fort been completed during the decade arlor pi lor to the war expenditures for or the operation of tile the state slate prison in ill 1949 19 4 9 total i triple the amount mount ft spent in 1930 for lor operations when con st ruction of 0 ft a new prison was waa under consideration of 0 ills alie total tate state appropriations provided and came from sales salea ind services of prison made goods and crops including income from the prison sign shop which manufactures motor vehicle license cense plates and road signs for the state cost per inmate was tit in 1940 compared with for 1948 utah foundation obtained comparative Inform information atlon I 1 for 0 r twenty othor other states including all of the eley western states of tho twenty states Wyom hiR g oregon and texas reported spending lp loss ag per inmate titan than does utah and only oregon had tt a smaller ratio of employees to in mates titan than does the utah prison warden la Is paid a 0 monthly salary of plus plug hla his home ionic on on the aha prison grounds salary of the deputy ivl warden irden la Is and for tile the captain of the guard all guaran havo have received a uniform salary which was increased from per month in 1945 to prior to july of 1949 at which unia time the rate was raised to per mo month wore more than halt of the inmates at tho abo prison had been convicted of previous felonies before their present sentences bogan began and 91 per cent had fiad been baen arrested at least once previously on counts other than minor traffic vlola viola tlona more than one nab third of the prisoners Vl records show five or more previous arrests with one having been arrested 60 times the utah F foundation analysis allows coat of operation of the probation and parole board wast was during tile the two years ended in june utah had individuals on probation piol atlon in fiscal 1949 who had been convicted of felonies 76 75 per cone cent as many as were confined on to the prison one in twelve violated the conditions of probation and was co committed 1 bitted to the prison there were inmates lt paroled in of was waa necessary to return 77 to prison for parole violation convicted felons paid a total of during the 1946 48 ill bt ent englum lillin as aa restitution for dam agon ages resulting from their crime and tor for tl the 0 support of deserted families lea the utah foundation study reports |