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Utah’s parole board didn’t increase compassionate releases during the pandemic

A third of the prisoners who died of COVID-19 had asked to be set free but never made it out.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Prison staff work to safely move inmates from their cells into the common day room to be vaccinated against COVID-19 during a vaccination event with interested incoming inmates at the Utah State Prison in Draper on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.