Proposed Federal Correctional Institution and Federal Prison Camp
Letcher County, Kentucky
The mission of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is to protect society by confining offenders in the controlled environments of prison and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and that provide work and other self-improvement opportunities to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding citizens.
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To accommodate a portion of the federal inmate population, the BOP is moving forward with planning for a new Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) and prison camp in Letcher County, Kentucky. Among the objectives for developing a new FCI and prison camp is to meet the on-going need for modern federal correctional facilities and infrastructure as well as to address an identified need for a new FCI and prison camp in the BOP’s Mid-Atlantic Region of the country.