USA HEAT visits FCI Manchester
The U.S. Attorney’s Heroin Education Action Team (USA HEAT) addressed approximately 75 Inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Manchester, Kentucky. Many of those inmates are part of a re-entry program and are scheduled for release within 2 years. United States Attorney Kerry Harvey spoke about the drug trafficking laws his office is using to address the overdose deaths in eastern and central Kentucky due to heroin and other opioids such as fentanyl. Learn more. The inmates also heard from David and Kayla Greene, the parents of Dominique Greene, who died of an overdose of heroin and fentanyl in October of 2015. The Greenes spoke about the devastating impact their son’s drug addiction had on them and their family. The Greenes implored the inmates to consider the families their hurting when they distribute drugs to a user.