SALT LAKE CITY -- A legislative audit says the Utah Department of Corrections isn't adequately monitoring prison inmates in county jails.

The audit was released Wednesday. It says a lack of oversight is putting the public at risk for an inmate escape.

The state sends some of its inmates to county jails because there is not enough room at the state prison. But the audit says the corrections department has failed to ensure security problems at some jails are being corrected.

In Sept. 2007, a pair of convicted killers escaped from the Daggett County Jail and were on the run for six days before being caught in Wyoming. A month later another state inmate escaped from a jail in Beaver County. He was caught about five hours later.