Inside Trump's Homeless Lockup in Utah
Authorized under Trump’s 2025 order, Utah’s 16-acre, state-run campus will hold about 1,300 unhoused people—many under court mandate—within a fenced facility where residents cannot freely leave.
On the northern edge of Salt Lake City, trucks hum past wheat stubble and the thin lines of new survey stakes. Here, Utah is building what officials describe as a compassionate response to homelessness: a sixteen-acre, state-run campus designed to house about 1,300 people with nowhere else to go. The site, once pastureland, w…
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