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Lockdowns Lifted At Salt Lake City, Gunnison Prisons

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(Salt Lake City, UT) — A lockdown put in place at state prisons in Salt Lake City and Gunnison has been lifted. The Utah Department of Corrections enacted it more than a month ago after an inmate reportedly attacked a guard at the Central Utah Correctional Facility.

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