Utah is relying on programs which employ people with disabilities to work doing repetitive tasks in a warehouse environment. The DOJ says that violates federal law, and says it will sue over it unless the state makes changes.
Nearly 600 Utahns with disabilities are working for less than $7.25 an hour, the minimum wage in Utah. Here’s how businesses are able to pay them less.
Catch up on coverage of two Utah programs featured in a new miniseries about the massive “troubled teen” industry: Provo Canyon School and Turn-About Ranch.
After death row inmate Taberon Honie sued to challenge their plan, state officials are scrambling to get a different drug for his approaching execution.
Utah’s parole board on Friday denied death row inmate Taberon Honie's request to stop his execution. The decision brings Honie one step closer to his planned execution by lethal injection currently scheduled for Aug. 8.
Utah prison officials expect to spend $200,000 to get the pentobarbital they plan to use for Taberon Honie's scheduled August execution. That's twice what Idaho paid last year for the same drug, according to media reports.
Shutting down Maple Lake Academy is a rare regulatory move for Utah officials, who in the past has faced criticism for being reluctant to shut down programs offering inadequate care.
He argued for years that authorities had the wrong guy — but now a man who authorities say faked his own death to avoid rape charges in Utah concedes he is Nicholas Rossi.
A young person died by suicide earlier this summer at a Utah teen treatment center, and now state licensors are increasing their scrutiny of the campus and could shut it down.