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DRAPER — State prison employees cannot wait for a new, up-to-date facility.
But they have concerns, according to their union’s executive director.
“The employees that have built lives around the Draper site begin to question, ‘Where’s it going to go? How far is the commute going to be?” said Justin Miller with American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employers, Local 1004.
Most workers live in southern Salt Lake County and northern Utah County.
Miller wonders if a rural location may be cost-prohibitive to Utah, regarding its prison employees.
“If we give them more incentives to stay at the state as opposed to transferring to a county, I think, long term, it’ll save taxpayers’ money,” Miller said.
That would also go for paying to train new employees if the current ones do not relocate.
Still, Miller and the prison workers are excited for the future. They consider a modern facility desperately needed.
