Spike Cohen, documentary filmmaker and founder of "You Are the Power," appeared on the Steve Finnegan Show to discuss his documentary opposing the proposed Mill Creek Mountain mega-prison in Franklin County, Arkansas, which is set to screen at the Ron Robinson Theater in Little Rock. The proposed 3,000-bed facility on 815 acres near Charleston (population 2,600) is widely opposed by locals due to massive infrastructure deficiencies — including no municipal water, sewer, or electrical capacity to support the prison's estimated 500,000 gallons of daily water needs. Cohen argues the project is a classic government boondoggle, with cost-plus contracts incentivizing contractors to favor an expensive, difficult site over more practical alternatives, and notes that $75 million already appropriated for a different prison expansion has been spent with nothing to show for it. Multiple counties and towns — including Waldron, Helena, Jonesboro, and others — have publicly volunteered to host the prison and even offered to donate land, yet the state continues pursuing the infeasible Franklin County site. Adding further complication, the Choctaw Nation has identified the land as potentially containing Native American burial grounds, which could trigger federal court proceedings and delay the project by years before a single shovel breaks ground.

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