An average of 220 individual visitors including family, friends, and professionals (attorney, clergy, law enforcement, etc) visit prisoners daily
Staff working in the telephone room answer approximately 700 telephone calls each day. The majority of these calls are requests for information about prisoner charges and bail.
All incoming and outgoing mail is inspected, sorted, and distributed by staff. Approximately 3,000 pieces of incoming prisoner mail and 2,200 pieces of outgoing prisoner mail go through the mail room weekly, with significantly higher amounts during the holidays. Each piece of prisoner mail is scanned for contraband and threats to security.
A contract provider delivers all commissaries to the jail and it is then delivered to the prisoners by jail staff. We deliver an average of 650 commissary orders weekly.
The Clothing and Laundry Unit provides clean clothing and bedding for all of our prisoners. We also store prisoner property and street clothing in individual lockers for safekeeping until they are released.
Utilizing a prisoner labor workforce supervised by civilian staff, we sort, wash, fold, and distribute over 700 tons of laundry yearly, which includes the bedding and clothing used and worn by the prisoners.
The Facilities Maintenance personnel provide facility management services for a number of Sheriff’s Office buildings on and near our campus. A major function of the maintenance unit is the provision and administration of both in-house and contract services, which include maintenance of the fire alarm system, elevators, electrical, plumbing, power generators and heating/air conditioning, ventilation and all related temperature control systems. Other responsibilities include facility repair, renovation, preventive maintenance, and the provision of support services to several other divisions.
We are constantly making engineering and construction modifications to the facilities to improve the performance of the entire campus and all of its many systems. Our goal is to create and provide a pleasant, safe and healthy environment for all employees, visitors and prisoners. We are very proud of our maintenance staff for the way they take personal ownership of the facilities and the great job they are doing.
The Warehouse Unit is responsible for delivering supplies, commissary, laundry, cleaning materials, meals and picking up trash throughout the facility. Each year, we deliver more than 2.4 million prisoner meals to the housing units, move over 4,500 tons of trash, recycle 45 tons of cardboard, and move over 700 tons of laundry. Because the facility is so large, the majority of these deliveries are made using power tugs with a variety of different trailers.
The Computer Liaison Unit consists of officers who are responsible for assisting staff with computer issues. They work with Jail and Sheriff’s Office staff as well as SL County and the State of Utah Information Services, responding to technical problems with computer systems 24 hours a day. We manage six integrated systems that assist in prisoner management, reporting, criminal investigations and prisoner identifications.