"Around the country, impoverished rural communities have pursued prisons in the hope that they will deliver them from economic hardship." @NBCNews reports from Letcher County, Kentucky:https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/kentucky-prison-coal-country …
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Our story from November on the long-delayed facility: "Even the Trump administration, which is coal-country friendly and generally a supporter of prisons, has left the project out of its recommended budget for Fiscal 2018."https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/11/07/a-timely-prison-project-or-a-g-o-p-congressman-s-boondoggle …
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