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Justice and Due Process

Recovery Utah Is Right to Lean on Private and Faith-Based Programs

We welcome a plan that treats churches and private groups as recovery partners. They offer what a government agency can’t, such as mentors, belonging, and a reason to stay sober.

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Justice and Due Process

What Happens After the Sentence?

Three families share what happens after a prison sentence ends, and why helping people rebuild their lives can be as important as the sentence itself.

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Justice and Due Process

Utah Should Track Recovery Outcomes After Treatment Ends

Utah appropriated more than $675 million for behavioral health services in fiscal 2027 without that measurement. 

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Justice and Due Process

The Insanity Debate Changes at the State Line

Clancy’s jurors are applying a Massachusetts rule that asks whether she could appreciate the wrongfulness of her conduct. Utah abandoned that question in 1983

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Justice and Due Process

Prison Isn’t the Only Way to Hold Someone Accountable

Dangerous people have to be held accountable. But is a cell the only instrument? There is an older American answer that owes nothing to Marx.

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Justice and Due Process

Supreme Court Narrows Drug-User Gun Ban Enforced in Utah

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the government cannot strip Second Amendment rights based only on drug use.

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