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Gehrke: The money-making business of sending state inmates to county jails has failed and should be revamped

After a monthslong state investigation, an ex-sheriff in Daggett County and four deputies were charged in May with sadistically abusing inmates. The law enforcement officers are accused of zapping inmates with stun guns, and if they could withstand the jolt for five seconds, the jailers would buy them soda. The sheriff, according to charges, didn’t investigate the conduct and gave false information to investigators. In the aftermath, the state Department of Corrections pulled all of its inmates... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>

 

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