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On Tuesday, 5th District Judge James L. Shumate ordered that transcripts of a Jan. 25 visit between polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs and his brother Nephi at the Purgatory Correctional Facility in Hurricane be released.

Warren Jeffs has confessed, but the question remains: Will his followers accept it? The best guess from people who have lived all their lives in the polygamist community along the Utah-Arizona border is this: A ...

As tapes of Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs' jailhouse conversations are made public, law enforcement and lawyers are watching and listening.

A southern Utah man accused of mailing a letter threatening to kill IRS agents will go on trial next week in federal court.

Evidence from Jeffs trial to be made public Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs tried to kill himself while incarcerated in the Purgatory Jail, according to newly released court documents.

“I'm just a damn soul, damned soul”

A polygamous-sect leader attempted to hang himself in jail in January, eight months before a jury convicted him of rape as an accomplice, according to documents released by a judge Tuesday.

The disclosure was in an eight-page evaluation by a mental-health expert. Eric Nielsen examined Warren Jeffs in April and found him depressed but fit for trial.

The suicide attempt was not disclosed in May when a judge released portions of the report.

Jeffs attempted to hang himself in his cell at the Washington County jail on Jan. 28, Nielsen wrote. Read more

“When he was 20 years old, he had been immoral with a sister and a daughter.”

Last Update: 10/30 10:01 pm Details of the Warrens Jeffs case kept secret during the trial were made public Tuesday. via Kutv.com

Rebuffed last session, a Democratic lawmaker said he's ready to reintroduce a reworked version of a bill intended to help women leave polygamist husbands.

Tapes are apparently still being made of Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs' conversations inside the Purgatory Jail.

Broadway. 413 pp. $24.95 Up against the Arizona-Utah border lies a town comprising about 10,000 zealots, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Lawyers for Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs are objecting to the release of any more sealed records in the polygamous sect leader's criminal case.

Sources familiar with both Warren Jeffs and his confinement in the Purgatory Correctional Facility tell ABC4 that on at least two occasions he tried to harm himself.

Jeffs' jail conversations may haunt him in trials A federal grant that provided services for women and children dealing with abuse and neglect in closed polygamous societies has dried up.

The case against a former Colorado City police officer who was charged with sexual conduct with a minor is still officially open.

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs told family members, in conversations recorded at Purgatory Correctional Facility, that he had been "immoral" with a sister and daughter and that he had renounced his role as prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs renounced his role as "prophet" of the polygamist sect in a series of phone calls to family and followers, and again in a videotaped jailhouse conversation with his ...

What if your husband came to you and said, "I want another wife?" Even though polygamy is illegal in America, experts say there are 30,000 to 50,000 people living in plural families across the country.

By the time Carolyn Jessop was 18 years old, she had been coerced into an arranged marriage with a stranger who was 32 years older.

Polygamy is often seen as synonymous with Mormonism, even though The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discontinued the practice more than 150 years ago. However, a variety of fundamentalist groups still practice the principle of plural marriage as taught by early church leaders.

As number 28 of 48 children fathered by polygamist and fundamentalist-sect leader Rulon Allred, Dorothy Allred Solomon has polygamy down cold.