As it turns out, Utah has some pretty sensible laws when it comes to crime, which might be why it has a very low incarceration rate compared to the national average. In Utah, 391 out of every 100,000 people are incarcerated, whereas the national average is 607 per 100,000 people. This has a lot to do with their Justice Reinvestment Initiative, which saw certain non-violent felonies reclassified as misdemeanors.
