Utah State Prison News Archives

Two embezzlers sentenced a week apart. Same judge, same courtroom. Hollie Halacy, who stole $72,000 from her employer, earns a year in the Weber County Jail.

Steve Strom will not be charged with murder in the 1980 death of his wife, the Davis County Attorney's Office said Thursday.

A judge denied a man's request for leniency and sentenced him to serve two one- to 15-year sentences in Utah State Prison for two second-degree felonies.

An Eagle Mountain couple serving time in prison for child abuse explained their actions during parole hearings.

Steve Strom will not be charged with murder in the 1980 death of his wife, the Davis County Attorney's Office said Thursday.

It was fall 2006, months after Val Southwick's VesCor companies had stopped paying interest to hundreds of unsuspecting investors, when a Colorado dentist decided to hand over $372,000 of his retirement savings.

A judge sentenced a woman to serve 15 years' probation in order to pay back $214,266 she stole from her former employer.

A polygamous sect leader from Ogden has died at the Utah State Prison. Arvin Shreeve, 79, died Monday of natural causes, said Utah Department of Corrections deputy director Mike Haddon.

A judge has ruled that a man who says he spent 15 years in Utah State Prison for crimes he didn't commit is entitled to a hearing to prove his innocence.

In your " Utah's Alternative Pioneers " story from the July 23 issue, you did right by including Big Bill Haywood, but how could you forget Joe Hill? To us Wobblies , he is nothing less than a true labor hero! Joseph "Joe Hill" Hillstrom was murdered by the state of Utah in 1915 over a crime he did not commit, over the clemency requests of ...

A prison inmate was flown to University Hospital on Tuesday afternoon after he was stabbed multiple times during a gang fight.

Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has resumed eating after a period of fasting in jail that left doctors so concerned about an "imminent" risk of death that he was forcibly fed, Arizona officials said Tuesday.