Weber County Inmate Hans Fastre Dies in a Utah Hospital
Hans Paul Fastre, 57, was arrested in Weber County, Utah, on August 28, 2025, on a charge of driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He was booked into Weber County Jail shortly thereafter and housed in the medical area. The next day at about 8:45 p.m., according to the Weber County Sheriff’s Office, Mr. Fastre experienced a medical emergency. Lifesaving measures were initiated by jail deputies and medical staff. After being transported to a nearby hospital, Hans Fastre was pronounced deceased on August 29, 2025.
The address of Weber County Jail is 370 26th St, Ogden, UT 84401. The jail’s inmate capacity is 888.
Suicide is the Leading Cause of Death in Utah County Jails
A woman was found dead by suicide in a Utah County jail cell after she was denied her prescription medication for nine days. This happened, though the jail had current and prior knowledge of the woman’s mental illness because she had been incarcerated in that jail previously. The woman had called her mother the day before her death and begged her to bring her medications to the jail.
That jail was Utah’s Duchesne County Jail, and 21-year-old Madison Jenson also died there. She was experiencing complications related to opiate withdrawal and died from dehydration after being in jail for only four days. She was vomiting unceasingly and received inadequate medical care in spite of her requests for help. Her rapidly deteriorating health was ignored by the jail staff, including the staff nurse. Hours before her death, Ms. Jenson can be seen in surveillance video stumbling and collapsing.
Salt Lake City Jail is Called Out for Inmate Deaths
In a 2020 article, the Salt Lake County Metro Jail was exposed for shortcomings that allegedly result in inmate deaths. In each of the cases alluded to, as follows, inmates asked for help before their death but allegedly did not receive it:
- A woman who died pleaded for help in the Salt Lake County jail, but her cries were ignored.
- A woman had a miscarriage while incarcerated. She complained about bleeding for weeks before dying.
- After asking for help and receiving no tangible assistance, a man died by suicide.
- A woman pleaded for medical treatment for two weeks, after which she died from a stroke.
Families were seeking changes such as providing adequate medical care for inmates and the removal of certain jail staff.
The family of 37-year-old Lisa Ostler was devastated when she died after callous treatment in Salt Lake County Metro Jail. She became addicted to prescription opioids and later turned to heroin, as countless others have since the opioid addiction crisis began in the 1990s. Ms. Ostler also had Crohn’s disease, which is an inflammatory bowel disease that can cause digestive issues accompanied by extreme pain.
As Ms. Ostler began experiencing excruciating pain, other inmates asked the jail staff to please help her, but she was allegedly treated with indifference. Ms. Ostler was finally moved to the Intermountain Medical Center, where she was transferred to the intensive care unit. Lisa Ostler died on April 3, 2016. According to her family, the medical examiner’s report found that Ms. Ostler’s cause of death was peritonitis, an inflammation in the abdomen that can lead to a spreading infection.
Any time an inmate dies of an infection, it is a red flag that appropriate medical care may not have been provided.
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