State Sen. Todd Weiler has read the news reports of high-profile inmate deaths in Utah, where county inmates died at a higher rate than anywhere else in the nation in 2014.
Those reports included Heather Ashton Miller, who fell off a top bunk in the Davis County jail in Farmington and split her spleen. She looked like she was dead, employees said, when paramedics were called, her skin an ashy gray. She was pronounced dead at 28 shortly after being taken from the jail that sits just outside of Weiler’s District 23.
Madison Jensen, too, was in the news this year.