Utah Jail Going In-House For Mental Health Services

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder believes mental health services for county jail inmates can be provided more inexpensively by an in-house staff than by employees of a private contractor. He convinced the County Council to go along with him on the revised approach to treatment. But council members harbored enough reservations about taking on more county staff – to the detriment of the private sector – that they asked the sheriff for annual updates on the impact of the change. This was reported by The Salt Lake Tribune on February 26, 2013. Contact information . . .