Inside Oxbow

Aug 18, 2008 by Elizabeth Ziegler

(KCPW News) The Salt Lake County Council gave Sheriff Jim Winder the green light to start preparing the vacant Oxbow Jail to house 184 low-to-moderate risk inmates enrolled in special treatment programs designed to reduce recidivism rates. The plan is intended to relieve the near-capacity main county jail. KCPW's Elizabeth Ziegler toured both jails last week with Sheriff Winder, and files this report:

 

The jail's booking room is perhaps the most impacted by overcrowding. Tune in later this week for a follow-up report on the jail's revolving door, where roughly 800 people a month are photographed, fingerprinted, processed and released - without spending any time behind bars. These overcrowding releases are the focus of KCPW's Elizabeth Ziegler next report on Salt Lake County corrections.

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