The following story was written and researched by Eric S. Peterson and Ria Agarwal of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Deseret News. SALT LAKE CITY — On TV there seems to be two kinds of cops — the rogue cop who plays by his own rules and the “by the book”...
This story was reported and written by Rone Tempest for the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. The Utah Department of Corrections has agreed to award four former Daggett County Jail inmates a total of $122,000 in damages for abuse they received at the hands of a jail guard who...
The following was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Spectrum & Daily News. Eugene Richardson is a Mormon fundamentalist who lives on a very lonely patch of desert about 45 minutes west of Cedar City. He lives in a small trailer on 80 acres of sand and sagebrush...
The following story was written by Luke Ramseth for The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. It starts out easily enough: An opioid sales representative tells a doctor about a product over lunch, then picks up the tab. For some doctors, this arrangement spirals into a habit. As reps...
The following is the second in a two-part series that was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Read Part 1 here. Anthony Adams, a gay, black Socialist activist, was found brutally stabbed to death in his Salt lake City Avenues apartment on Nov. 6, 1978....
The following is the first in a two-part series written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. You can read part 2 here. “Who Killed Anthony Adams?” The question spray-painted as graffiti across Salt Lake City 40 years ago still begs an answer. Adams’ body was discovered...
This story was reported and written by Rone Tempest of the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. A third former inmate at the Daggett County jail filed suit in federal court Wednesday claiming that he was repeatedly shocked with stun guns and subjected to dog attacks by a guard at...
The following story was written and researched by Ryan Trimble for the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. When David Shay began smoking spice, he believed he was choosing a safe, legal alternative to marijuana. “I wasn’t able to smoke marijuana because of drug tests at my job,” he says,...
This article was written by Rone Tempest of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. In a case that challenges the Utah Department of Corrections policy of farming out 20 percent of its inmates to remote county jails, the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed a federal civil rights...
The following story was written and researched by Rone Tempest for The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Dustin Porter said he has recurring nightmares of the attack dog that lunged at him in a slippery jail hallway: “I’ll wake up right before he bites me.” Josh Olsen said he...