The Salt Lake Tribune
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Sweet deal in Daggett
KSL-TV's Investigative reporter Debbie Dujanovic and producer Kelly Just report that a Daggett County affordable housing program seems to be tailor-made for local jail guards. In fact, corrections employees are just about the only people who seem to qualify for the taxpayer-subsidized $125,000 houses.

With six homes all but done, we have learned four are all owned by men with something in common. They are Daggett County jail guards. They all get paid to watch over the very inmates who built their homes. We confirmed one guard even supervised prisoners during construction of his own home. And, we're told a fifth guard has recently been qualified.
KSL learned some non-guard applicants often never hear back from the county. "Then, after we began contacting county officials, someone who is not a jail guard suddenly got the green light for a home," Dujanovic says.

Dujanovic apparently was acting as an investigative agent of Rep. Neil Hansen of Ogden who "had actually asked KSL to investigate the program. He had received an anonymous letter about problems. ... Hansen says he is now ready to order a government investigation into the program."

1 Comments:

At February 19, 2008 2:35 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

This same thing is going on in
sanpete county with prison inmates

 

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