USA: updates on resisting the BOP’s toxic prison in Letcher county

Last week, on September 29, 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons BOP closed the public comment period on it’s “Final Supplemental Revised Environmental Impacts Statement.” While we at the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prison will be continuing the effort to push for the $444 million in public money for this prison to be removed from the federal budget until that process is finalized by Congress, we also wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past month of organizing around the latest EIS and share what we accomplished so that it can be built on.

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