The Draper Operations program includes funding for the operations of the Utah State Prison Complex at Draper. They house all offenders committed to prison for the commission of a state criminal offense as outlined in the Utah Criminal Code. In addition, some facilities hold offenders who are undergoing a diagnostic evaluation to provide the sentencing court with pre-sentencing guidance and evaluations. Lastly, they hold parolees who have violated their parole agreements.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $69,843,200 from all sources for Institutional Operations Draper Facility. This is a 7.3 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $69,693,400 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 7.3 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
The program includes appropriations for facility administration, programming, volunteer services, recidivism reduction programs, security, food service, maintenance, laundry, mail and inmate property. The facility has approximately 3,700 inmates compared to the maximum capacity of about 4,000 prisoners.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.