Rogers pushes back on Trump administration to keep $500M Eastern KY prison funding
October 21, 2025
Lexington Herald-Leader: “A long-debated new federal prison in Eastern Kentucky could move one step closer to fruition if Washington breaks its gridlock.
Under the current U.S. House version of an appropriations bill, Congress would deny the Trump administration’s request to rescind funding for a $500 million federal prison project in Letcher County.
The bill also includes language that limits lawsuits over the project to just one jurisdiction….
In 2019, the Bureau of Prisons reversed its approval of construction on the site after the Abolitionist Law Center sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing the facility would damage the environment and expose inmates at the facility to toxic pollutants at the former mining site.”