Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, said he filed the bill after reading news reports that detailed deaths of inmates, some of whom didn’t receive medication they were taking before they were incarcerated.
SB205 would require the counties and prisons to send that information each year to the state’s Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
They would also have to report their lists of allowed medications and plans for treating inmates who are addicted to opiates when they’re arrested.
Withdrawal is one of several common dangers for inmates. Suicide is also by far the No.