"Pew's analysis found Utah's prison population dropped 9 percent from 2015 to 2017. But just a few years earlier, the state's prison population had been increasing at a rate five times the national average. Adam Gelb, director of Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, says it's clear the state's criminal justice reform law, passed in 2015, was successful at reversing the trend."
Utah Public News Service
June 4, 2018