HELP US STOP FCI LETCHER: A Film Screening, Teach-In, & CALL TO ACTION before the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) public comment period closes at midnight on April 15th.

Join the Building Community Not Prisons Coalition on Monday April 15th from 7:00 - 8:30 pm EST for the final event of our NO NEW LETCHER PRISON public comment period push to stop the construction of F.C.I. Letcher - the most expensive federal prison project in U.S. history.

We will view a shortcut of Sylvia Ryerson’s award-winning film Calls from Home, featuring the deep history of work against the U.S. Prison Industrial Complex in Letcher County, KY, followed by a teach-in on the No New Letcher Prison campaign with BCNP coalition members Judah Schept, Amelia Kirby, Kandia Milton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Sylvia Ryerson, Concerned Letcher Countians, Free Minds Book Club & more.

Come learn from those who are fighting this prison on the ground, from Letcher County, Kentucky to Washington, D.C., on how we’re working together to STOP this construction and demand better for all our communities.

We will discuss the strategic abolitionist organizing that defeated this prison for the first time in 2019, our next steps forward, and end with a DIRECT CALL TO ACTION to submit comments against F.C.I. Letcher to the Federal Bureau of Prisons before the current public comment period closes at midnight on April 15th, 2024.

Background: On Friday, March 1st, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) published their Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) concerning the proposed $500+ million construction of Federal Correctional Institution Letcher (FCI Letcher), a 1,408-bed federal prison sited on a former mountaintop removal coal mine site in Roxana, KY. This release opened up a 45-day public comment period on the prison.

Until April 15th, anyone in the United States can submit a comment on this proposed prison.

Join Building Community Not Prisons (BCNP) in opposing this prison, and demanding that these federal funds be reinvested in all the things that actually keep us safe - like quality & affordable housing, education, healthcare, and more! BCNP is hoping to flood the BOP with letters asking that this prison be stopped before April 15th & we need your help!