- The Utah Department of Correction disputes claims of inadequate inmate care during a month-long lockdown.
- Department leaders deny reports of unhygienic conditions and medication issues.
- The lockdown followed a violent attack on a corrections officer on Sept. 24.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Corrections is disputing the claims that inmates at the state prisons were not getting adequate care during a month-long lockdown.
The lockdown was initiated at both state prison locations — Salt Lake City and Gunnison — after a correctional officer was violently attacked and seriously injured at the Central Utah Correctional Facility on Sept. 24. Mike Schoenfeld, corrections department deputy commissioner, said an investigation was launched as they believed it could have led to more attacks at the prison.
“(Based on) the information we were gathering, things we were reading (and) things we were listening to, there was going to be continued attacks from a couple of different groups,” Schoenfeld said…