Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chapter 7 focuses on the coalition that formed to oppose USP Letcher and fight for a different future for the county. The coalition included local community organizers, landowners, and concerned residents, as well as national environmental activists and lawyers. Working on multiple fronts and through different strategies, the coalition delayed, disrupted, and eventually defeated the prison. Even as the proposal for USP Letcher moved beyond the environmental assessment stage required by federal environmental law and into the phase of construction, the work of the coalition had set the conditions of possibility for the project to falter. In a historic defeat, the Bureau of Prisons withdrew their Record of Decision on the prison, effectively foreclosing the possibility of construction. Coauthored with scholar and activist Sylvia Ryerson, whose own work on Appalachian prisons is foundational, this chapter examines the creation and amplification of an abolition geography, connected across time to earlier struggles in Appalachia and across space to other contemporary social movements, and motivated to plot both a different story and a different vision for the region.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".