Tag: Environmental Impact Statement

  • Prisoners and Activists Stop New Prison on Coal Mine Site in Kentucky

    Prisoners and Activists Stop New Prison on Coal Mine Site in Kentucky

    For Immediate Release June 13, 2019 Contact: Marianne Cufone, Green Justice, (813) 785-8386 Prisoners and Activists Stop New Prison on Coal Mine Site in Kentucky [6/20/19: An updated version of this press release can be found here] Washington, DC — In response to a federal lawsuit filed by Green Justice attorneys, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced it withdrew its…

  • Prisoners File Unique Environmental Lawsuit Against New Federal Facility on Strip Mine Site in Kentucky

    Prisoners File Unique Environmental Lawsuit Against New Federal Facility on Strip Mine Site in Kentucky

    Donate to support this grassroots legal challenge! Media Contact: FightToxicPrisons@gmail.com [Lawyers, prisoners and community activists available for comment.] Photos below by Jordan Mazurek. All images available for public use, courtesy of Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons Washington, DC — Lawyers with the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons and the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) have filed…

  • Proposed Half-a-Billion Dollar Federal Prison Plan in East Kentucky Not a Done Deal

    Proposed Half-a-Billion Dollar Federal Prison Plan in East Kentucky Not a Done Deal

    Comment Period on Environmental Review Forced Back Open by Concerns from Local Residents, Environmentalists and Prisoner Rights Advocates Whitesburg, KY — On Friday April 1st, 2016, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced that it was forced to re-open a public comment period for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a maximum security federal prison in…

  • Mass Incarceration Vs. Rural Appalachia

    Mass Incarceration vs. Rural Appalachia by Panagioti Tsolkas / Earth Island Journal The United States Bureau of Prisons is trying to build a new, massive maximum-security prison in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky — and there’s a growing movement to stop it. The prison industry in the US has grown in leaps and bounds…