State of Utah Archives: on Crime

Allen Glines: Reported illegal gambling sites and had them shut down

Allen Glines: Ban private prisons, cash bail, and civil forfeiture

• Ban private prisons, cash bail, and civil forfeiture.
• End the militarization of police.
• End racial and religious profiling.
• Explore alternatives to confinement for non-violent, low level offenders.
• Ban no-knock warrants.
• Ban chokeholds.
• Establish nongovernmental entity for investigating where unarmed individuals were killed by law enforcement.
• Fund continued processing of backlogged rape kits.
• Examine use of solitary confinement in prisons & seek to reduce it.

Allen Glines: Increased penalties for facilities, persons for elder abuse

• Expand analysis and regulation of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Increase penalties for facilities that continue to provide substandard care.
• Increase penalties for elder abuse offenses in home and healthcare settings.
• Lower prescription prices for seniors.
• Expand Silver Alert missing persons system to nationwide.
• Strengthen elder abuse laws and punishments for people who take advantage of the elderly.

Austin Searle: Police should only carry tasers, not guns

Kamala Harris: Ban chokeholds by police; registry of police crimes

Kamala Harris: In CA, created many first-time criminal justice reforms

Mike Pence: Yes to justice for George Floyd; no to riots

Craig Bowden: Rehabilitation instead of punishment

A: I prefer a rehabilitative approach with restitution to victims as opposed to simply punishment.

Jenny Wilson: Beef up laws to address targeted hate crimes

Jenny Wilson for Senate Facebook response: "Progress. Proud that the County Council on which I serve passed this unanimously and with an expanded list of commonly targeted religious groups. It's time to start measuring the success of our communities by how we treat our most vulnerable members. This resolution calls upon Utah's legislature to step up."

Greg Hughes: Round up offenders and offer jail or treatment

Misty Snow: Why so many people in prison? Why so many minorities?

This trend is even more troubling when you look at the demographics of who is going to prison. African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, and trans* people are incarcerated disproportionately when compared to the nation's population as a whole. Minorities are also more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, charged, tried, convicted, incarcerated, or simply killed by police. These are very disturbing trends.

People shouldn't be profiled for their race, their ethnicity, their religion or their gender identity. People shouldn't feel like they are being targeted for walking, driving, boarding an airplane, or even shopping while they are black, brown, Muslim or Trans*.

Misty Snow: End private prisons; end profit in incarceration

We need to seriously reform our justice system in this country. We need to change the way we train our police officers, and refocus our criminal justice system on rehabilitation.

Mike Weinholtz: Fully fund indigent defense; protect 6th Amendment rights

Gary Herbert: Authorize construction of new state prison

• creates the Prison Development Commission and provides for its membership, duties, and operation;
• provides for Division of Facilities Construction and Management oversight of the prison design and construction project;
• enacts a local option sales and use tax for a city or town that has a new state correctional facility;
• authorizes the issuance of bonds for the prison project;
• creates a restricted account and capital projects fund for the prison project;
• provides a process for the choice of a new prison site; and

Jon Huntsman: Supports death penalty but not necessarily expanding it

Maryland, N.J. and Washington are considering eliminating the death penalty or limiting its use. In the Utah House, this legislation passed, 72-0. Gov. Jon Huntsman supports the death penalty but has said he's not ready to take a position on expanding it