June 2024 Archive

Local jails play a significant role in Utah’s criminal justice system. Specifically, county jails serve an important function by housing a portion of state inmates and certain probationers (who are sentenced to serve in a county jail as a condition of their probation). The program that pays for state inmates to use local facilities is […]

2024 Third Special Session Fiscal Impacts During Wednesday’s Special Session, the legislature considered five bills and two resolutions. Only two of those bills or resolutions had direct, measurable fiscal impacts to the state: June Revenue Reports These positive fiscal impacts, however small, were welcomed by the relatively stagnant revenue growth observed in the latest revenue […]