Wayne County's rolling hills in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania has been home to generations of dairy farmers. But recent hard times have meant foreclosures and the loss of young people to cities. Desperate to attract jobs, officials invited the Federal Bureau of Prisons to consider the area for a maximum security prison.

This decision has divided the otherwise quiet community. Those opposed to the prison say they were left out of the decision-making process, and that the Federal government used threats and coersion to force citizens to sell family land to the project. Damage to local wetlands from the construction and the destruction of historical sites has helped galvanize opinion against the project. Activists also feel that the race to build more prisons is short-sighted, since many federal inmates are non-violent drug offenders. "Find alternatives," they say.

County officials, on the other hand, say the prison will bring much-needed jobs into the area and attract other industries, such as hotels and restaurants catering to the institution.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a crisis of their own: The Washington D.C. jail population has recently come under its jurisdiction, and recent immigration laws have caused inmate population to swell.

This struggle, which is causing many Wayne County residents like Sandi Gambuti to say, "Not in my backyard, not in anyone's backyard", will be played out many more times before the Federal Bureau of Prisons completes its largest expansion ever.