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Databases Updated on Mar 28, 2024

How to Perform Utah Inmate Lookup

The state’s Department of Corrections has an official offender search feature on their website. You can search for someone incarcerated in the state with just a name, or offender ID. However, you must comply with their usage terms before using it. The search results will yield you, name, date of birth and gender. You can click on someone’s ID to see more details. The additional information will include only height, weight, location, parole details, and any aliases. You can, however, use a Utah inmate records search online to find someone in jail or prison and get much more detail including mug shots.

Creating Public Jail Records

The state’s Department of Corrections is responsible for maintaining jail records for all inmates. When prisoners receive visitors, appear in court, get sentenced or charged with further offenses, it is all added to their criminal record. The Utah inmate search records are the pieces that occur while they are incarcerated and under the supervision of the state department of corrections. These jail records may contain many types of information, and some of it becomes public record for locating an inmate. All kinds of law enforcement have access to the jail records so everyone can be on the same page with each inmate.

What are Utah Jail Records?

Utah jail inmate search records are the records that follow each inmate through the jail and prison system. When someone is arrested, the first bit of paperwork is completed and the prisoner is assigned an ID. Then everything else that happens to them with the courts or other law enforcement agencies gets noted in the file. Utah prison inmate search records are critically important to keep everything straight and knowing exactly where someone is being detained and what their situation is. All branches of law enforcement share these records, and some are even available to the general public.

Jail and Inmate Search in Utah

The state has a current prison population of 6,616 and a jail population of 4,100. 6516 of those are male and the rest female. 61.17% of UT inmates are White, 20.07% are Hispanic, 6.69% are Black, 5% are Native American, 3.17 are Asian, and the rest are of unknown nationality. UT also supervises about 4,000 inmates on parole and another 14,866 people on probation. 16% of those inmates in prison have committed misdemeanors and the rest felonies. .40% of the inmates have committed capital offenses. The state also has about 610 youths in detention centers around the state.

Criminal Justice Quick Facts

237
Utah Imprisonment Rate
6,181
Prison Population
12,164
Probation Population
3,502
Parole Population
7.3:1 (Black : White Ratio)
1.6:1 (Hispanic : White Ratio)
Racial Disparity in Incarceration Rate
114
Juvenile Custody Rate (per 100 000)
7,669 (0.37%)
Disenfranchised Population
724 (3.18%)
Disenfranchised African Americans
458
Corrections Expenditures (in millions)

Utah Parole Population

Utah parole population as of the beginning of 2016 counted 3,502 people, 172 paroles per 100.000 population. That’s by 205 people more compared to the previous year, which has increased by 5.9%.

Paroles per 100.000 population (2016)
Nationwide
349
Utah
172
Parole Total Population in Utah (2016)
Nationwide
870,657
Utah
3,502
Parole Entries & Exits (2016)
Entries
2,640
Exits
2,435
Change in 2016, in Percentage and Number
Percent
5.9%
Number
205
Number on parole per 100,000 U.S. adult residents
Increased by
4,120
Adults entering parole, by type of entry
Type of Parole Entry:
Number of Parolees:
Discretionary
2,452
Mandatory
0
Reinstatement
77
Term of supervised release
0
Other
111
Unknown
0

Utah Prisons

Operating off an annual budget of $320 million, the state manages 27 jails and seven prisons. Within those facilities, they supervise 10,716 prisoners. The state community corrections system also oversees another 14,866 people on probation and 4000 inmates on parole. Based on one hundred thousand residents, UT has an overall incarceration rate of 201, a property crime rate of 2,952 and a violent crime rate of 243. The state’s Department of Corrections runs with a staff of 2,400 employees, and it costs them $29,349 per inmate per year.

Prison Name Prison Type
Central Utah Correctional Facility (CUCF)State Prison
Salt Lake City RRMFederal Prison
Utah State Prison (USP)State Prison