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(KSL News) Daggett County Jail still has not beefed up perimeter fencing following the escape of two inmates more than a year ago, and it is blaming budget matters.
Daggett County Sheriff Rick Ellsworth says the fence would be useful but is not absolutely necessary since inmates have not been allowed in the recreation yards since the escape last September.
He also tells the Salt Lake Tribune that if they were required to build the fence, they could not because they "couldn't even afford the materials."
The estimated cost of the fence is just more than $270,000.
