Central Utah Correctional Facility


The Central Utah Correctional Facility is a prison in Gunnison, Utah, United States, that is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It's also death row for women in Utah.

Description

The prison was completed in 1990 and has a capacity for 1,125 prisoners.
CUCF is composed of two main housing units: Henry and Boulder. Henry is broken up into four sections - Aspen, Birch, Cedar, and Dogwood. Boulder is divided into three buildings - Elm, Fir, Gale and Hickory. Aspen, Birch and Cedar house regular population inmates. Dogwood is a short term housing unit intended for those in transport, those waiting to be moved into other sections, and those being punished. Elm houses some college students, but also contains "lock-down", or punishment, sections. Fir houses inmates who are either enrolled in or are waiting to begin the in-patient substance abuse treatment program "HOPE". Gale houses inmates who are part of the STRIVE. Hickory is controlled, maximum security unit housing "level two" inmates.
The prison is used to house up to maximum security types of inmates. Unlike the Utah State Prison located in Draper, CUCF is located in a rural part of the state, and thus more isolated from the main population centers of Utah. The prison underwent an expansion concluding in 2008, adding 192 beds in the Hickory unit to meet the growing needs of Utah's offender population.

Notable inmates