Where do inmates live?
Inmates can live in one of the state’s two prison sites, or in one of the several county jails that has qualified to house state inmates. Inmates are housed based on gender, classification and security levels, employment status, and habilitative opportunities, as well as the facilities’ space availability and management issues. In most cases, inmates are not segregated based on their offense(s). The two prison sites are the Utah State Prison in Draper, and the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison. The Draper complex consists of eight facilities: Lone Peak, Olympus, Oquirrh, Promontory, Special Services Dormitory (SSD), Timpanogos, Wasatch, and Uinta. The Gunnison complex consists of five facilities named Aspen, Birch, Cedar, Dogwood, and Gunnison. Most facilities have several housing units. The Inmate Placement Program (IPP) places inmates in the Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Daggett, Davis, Duchesne, Garfield, Grand, Kane, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier, San Juan, Summit, Uint
