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Utah currently has no state-level standards governing the conditions inside privately operated detention facilities — places where people are held by a private company under contract with a government agency. This bill requires the Utah Department of Health and Human Services to create and enforce rules for these facilities, mandating that they provide clean living areas, three meals a day, personal hygiene items, access to phones, disability accommodations, infection control programs, and trained staff; the department must conduct routine unannounced inspections, investigate complaints, and publicly post inspection results in multiple languages, and can fine facilities up to $10,000 per violation for repeated or uncorrected problems. The bill also specifically applies these standards to private civil immigration detention facilities — places where people are held while awaiting immigration proceedings, not criminal charges.