Expanding The Salt Lake County Jail Is Inevitable And Should Be Done Now, Says Outgoing Sheriff Jim Winder

On his way out of town and into a new job as Moab’s police chief, former Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder had one thing he wanted to talk about — jail beds. Winder’s tenure as sheriff was marked with jail crowding, which led to contention with police who said restrictions at the jail were hampering crime fighting efforts. In his final interview as head of the county’s jails, bailiffs at the courthouses and the Unified Police Department, Winder refused to veer from his belief that the county s... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>