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Show Criminal justice hearing held tonight process in Utah will be shown and a commission member will briefly speak about the critical criminal justice challenges and issues facing Utahns. Citizens and public officials attending at-tending the hearing can express their view by writing down their concerns and ideas and submitting them to the commission members at the hearing. There will also be an opportunity to address the commission. All in attendance will be asked to respond to a survey concerning criminal justice issues. Citizens in the Utah and Wasatch County areas will be asked to voice their views on a broad range of criminal and juvenile justice questions at a public hearing in the Provo City Council chambers tonight, June 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Similar hearings are being held in other Utah Communities during June and July to inform the public about critical criminal justice issues and to hear from participants. Some of the areas that will be covered in tonight's meeting include criminal sentencing, prosecution, incarceration, law enforcement and victims' rights. Craig L. Barlow, executive director of the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, said citizens are encouraged to comment on any topic ranging from neighborhood neigh-borhood crime prevention to the paroling of state prison inmates. During the hearing a brief film depicting the criminal justice |