01/24/2025
“As someone from Letcher County, I know that people are desperate for job opportunities, and I felt like it was very important as we drafted our plans to be sensitive to the fact that we can’t take something away without putting something in this place,” said the co-executive director of Appalachian Rekindling Project...There will need to be lots of jobs in the work, in care of the bison. There are so many different ways that people can have good paying jobs that don’t necessarily mean that they have to be inside of a prison all day.”
Indigenous group seeking to restore and reclaim Appalachian land buys 63 acres within site of proposed federal prison with the support of prison opponents.
