Utah’s Gunnison prison site to expand after lawmakers shell out $125M

Utah’s Gunnison prison site to expand after lawmakers shell out $125M

The Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)When the lights came on at Utah’s newest prison site in 2022, it opened at a cost of $1 billion and with fewer beds than the campus it replaced. Less than four years later, the state is planning new construction to hold more prisoners.  The Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison is set to expand to…