The sex offender population at the Utah State Prison continues to grow at a staggering pace.
In 1996, there were 248 sex offenders incarcerated by the Utah Department of Corrections. Today, there are 10 times that number, in the neighborhood of 2,500 at both the Point of the Mountain and the prison in Gunnison, making it by far the fastest-growing population at the prison. …
A Pew study in 2014 found that 31 percent of all inmates in Utah were serving time for a sex offense — a 42 percent increase since 2004. Full Article