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Jessica Miller Schreifels

Investigative reporter

Jessica Schreifels, formerly Jessica Miller, is an investigative reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune, where she has worked since 2011. She was part of the team that won a 2017 Pulitzer Prize. She has collaborated with several national outlets for investigative projects, including FRONTLINE, American Public Media and ProPublica.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Heritage School's Homestead campus in Payson is pictured on Wednesday, August. 20, 2024.

After a youth’s suicide, this Utah teen treatment center is being monitored and could be shut down

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | August 29, 2024, 8:40 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man who has acknowledged that one of his identities is Nicholas Rossi is wheeled from the courtroom following his preliminary hearing for rape charges at the Salt Lake City District Courthouse in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. Rossi, accused of rape in Utah in 2008, was extradited from the United Kingdom after a series of hearings in which he claimed to be someone else.

Authorities say he faked his own death to avoid rape charges in Utah. His cases are now moving toward trial.

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | August 27, 2024, 8:53 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Maple Lake Academy in Spanish Fork, on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022.

Utah officials are shutting down a teen treatment program over safety concerns, years after girl’s death

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | August 23, 2024, 4:33 a.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) The lethal injection table is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility after the execution of Taberon Honie, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Salt Lake City.

How much it cost Utah taxpayers to execute Taberon Honie

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | August 20, 2024, 8:13 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Media witnesses, including Salt Lake Tribune reporter Jessica Miller, front left, examine the lethal injection table in the death chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility after the execution of Taberon Honie Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Salt Lake City.

Lethal injection: An eyewitness account of Taberon Honie’s execution in Utah

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | August 8, 2024, 6:48 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Plaintiffs and their supporters after the Utah Supreme Court heard an appeal in their lawsuit alleging their OB-GYN David Broadbent sexually assaulted them. The state's high court ruled Thursday that Broadbent's alleged actions did not arise out of health care, and therefore are not covered by Utah's medical malpractice law. This decision revives the women's civil lawsuit.

Lawsuit that accused a Provo OB-GYN of sexually abusing dozens of women is revived by Utah Supreme Court

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | August 8, 2024, 10:51 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City on the night of death row inmate Taberon Honie’s scheduled execution on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. Honie died by lethal injection early Thursday, Utah's first execution in 14 years.

Taberon Honie dies by lethal injection, the first execution in Utah in 14 years

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | Paighten Harkins | August 8, 2024, 8:06 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Death row inmate Taberon Honie arrives for a Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City.

Utah officials share how Taberon Honie has spent his final day before his expected lethal injection

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | Abigail Gray | Paighten Harkins | August 8, 2024, 7:57 a.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Death row inmate Taberon Honie looks on during the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing Monday, July 22, 2024, at the Utah State Correctional Facility, in Salt Lake City.

Utah Gov. Cox says he won’t delay Taberon Honie’s execution

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | August 6, 2024, 6:34 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Death row inmate Taberon Honie leaves for a break during the Utah parole board's commutation hearing on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City. Utah’s parole board on Friday denied Honie's request to stop his execution.

Taberon Honie comes closer to execution as Utah parole board denies commutation request

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 27, 2024, 12:35 a.m.

(Utah Department of Corrections) A table inside the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. The execution of Utah death row inmate Taberon Honie is currently scheduled for Aug. 8, 2024.

The expected cost of drugs for Utah’s execution jumped from $7K to $200K. Here’s why the state says it’s worth it.

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 26, 2024, 7:58 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Death row inmate Taberon Honie leaves for a recess during the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at the Utah State Correctional Facility, in Salt Lake City.

‘Just get this over:’ Murder victim’s family urge Utah parole board to allow inmate’s execution after 25 years

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 23, 2024, 10:33 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Death row inmate Taberon Honie speaks during the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing Monday, July 22, 2024, at the Utah State Correctional Facility, in Salt Lake City.

‘Would you allow me to exist?’: Death row inmate pleads with Utah parole board to spare his life

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 22, 2024, 10:40 p.m.

(Fox13) Taberon Honie enters a Fifth District courtroom in Cedar City, Monday, June 10, 2024. A judge signed an execution warrant for Honie, scheduling an execution for Aug. 8, 2024. Honie was sentenced in 1999 for the murder of the mother of his ex-girlfriend.

Utah prison officials are abandoning the plan to use an untested drug combo in an upcoming execution. Here’s what they want to use instead.

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 18, 2024, 12:49 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Paris Hilton leads a march to the Provo Canyon School during a rally calling for the closure of Provo Canyon School, a residential treatment center in Utah she attended when she was a teen, on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020.

Watching HBO’s ‘Teen Torture, Inc.’? Here are the Utah programs at the center of the miniseries.

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 16, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) John, a worker at EnableUtah in Ogden, staples cardboard hangers on a bag of bicycle parts. EnableUtah is one of nine businesses in Utah that is allowed to pay below minimum wage to workers whose disability affects their productivity.

How some Utah businesses pay less than minimum wage to these workers

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 16, 2024, 3:44 p.m.

(Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) Maps at a news conference held by the Utah's bipartisan redistricting panel in Taylorsville, Utah, on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. A legal battle over the boundaries of Utah's congressional districts may not be resolved by the 2026 election.

Here’s what’s next in Utah’s redistricting battle

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 15, 2024, 12:01 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) An employee working at EnableUtah in Ogden on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. A three-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice found that Utah is violating federal law by relying too heavily on programs which keep Utahns with intellectual disabilities away from the community — and instead congregates them together in work settings where they have little chance to interact with non-disabled people.

Shredding paper. Folding laundry. Utahns with disabilities work segregated, repetitive jobs — and the DOJ may sue over it.

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 15, 2024, 12:01 p.m.

(Fox13) Taberon Honie enters a Fifth District courtroom in Cedar City, Monday, June 10, 2024. A judge signed an execution warrant for Honie, scheduling an execution for Aug. 8, 2024. Honie was sentenced in 1999 for the murder of the mother of his ex-girlfriend.

Utah death row inmate sues the state over the untried drug combination set for his execution

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 12, 2024, 11:08 p.m.

(Disability Law Center) A closed to occupancy notice is posted on the door to Evergreen Place, a Midvale care facility that closed in January 2022 because of unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

After sexual assaults and ‘alarming’ deaths in care centers, Disability Law Center asks feds to investigate Utah licensers

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 10, 2024, 10:41 p.m.

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