Rep. Hal Rogers has wanted another prison in eastern Kentucky for years. Local and national activists say the new land owners ...
Indigenous group seeking to restore and reclaim Appalachian land buys 63 acres within site of proposed federal prison with ...
LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - On Friday, Rep. Hal Rogers announced the Federal Bureau of Prisons ... been secured for the project. “If this new prison facility isn’t built in Letcher County ...
Five federal prisons have been built in the area since 1992. One is proposed for Letcher County, Kentucky (shown in gray). (Map by Elizabeth Sanders / Data from U.S. Department of Corrections and U.S.