Could a new $444 million Kentucky prison get held up by inmates worried about bats, wetlands?

“The suit claims the U.S. Bureau of Prisons violated the law by failing to place documents concerning the prison construction in the libraries of federal prisons around the county so prisoners could read them and comment on them. It also claims the prison site is “toxic” and would endanger prisoners, while at the same time saying construction “would permanently degrade the already vulnerable environment.“

Lexington Herald Leader

December 5, 2018