Resources
2024 No New Letcher Prison Factsheet
The Bureau of Prisons' proposed prison in their own words
“Why We Are Standing Against FCI Letcher”
2019 Lawsuit
"Up The Ridge"
A in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts.
"Facts Don’t Support Economic Argument for Proposed Federal Prison in Letcher County"
A Report by Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
"Such spending priorities reflect a century-long pattern of regional development premised on extraction and exploitation. Coal mining has devastated public health and the local ecology and most likely made the floods last summer worse. Prisons in Appalachia, many built on former strip-mining sites, fail to address coal’s legacy while perpetuating the horrors of mass incarceration."
– Sylvia Ryerson and Judah Schept, NYTimes Op Ed
