Work Diversion
The Utah County Sheriff’s Office Work Diversion program provides inmates the opportunity to serve their court ordered sentence performing community work projects as opposed to serving a sentence in secure jail confinement. The inmates sentenced to this program continue to work at their full-time jobs as they complete work projects either on the weekends or their other scheduled days off throughout the week.
The work performed by the inmates is classified as general, unskilled labor. Work projects in the past have included: highway trash removal, set-up and clean-up after city or county celebrations, landscaping projects, snow removal, vehicle cleaning for Utah County Fire Department and UDOT as well as a wide array of other projects. The only requirement placed upon who is eligible to have work performed for them is that is must be a public entity such as a city, municipality or county government within Utah County, no private individuals or companies are allowed to have work performed for them.
The inmates in the Work Diversion program are directly supervised by deputies from the Sheriff’s Office who monitor their attendance, behavior and quality of work. The Sheriff’s Office requires the inmates to perform their work to a high standard. Non-compliant inmates who either do not work hard enough or do not complete their sentence in a timely manner are removed from the program and returned to the judge who originally sentenced them.
The Work Diversion program puts inmates who have violated the law back to work in our local community to pay their debt, perform needed work and serve their sentence. The program is visibly successful and a great public relations tool for the Sheriff’s Office.
Fees
The cost of participating in the program is $25.00 per month. This fee is collected at the beginning of your first day of participating in the program.
Payment must be made by cashiers check or money order only. NO personal checks will be accepted.
If you are court ordered to provide a DNA sample, an additional cashiers check/money order in the amount of $150.00, made out to the "Utah County Jail", is due prior to completion of the program. Payment date will be determined by the supervising deputy.
Please print and fill out the "Work Diversion Instruction" and "Work Diversion Agreement" forms. You will need to bring these completed forms with you to orientation. If you have additional questions after reading through the forms, please call 801-851-4273 and leave a message.