A debate over a proposed immigration detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas, took another turn on Thursday with a group ...

CoreCivic argues that its empty, nonoperational facility — which hasn’t held a single detainee going on four years — somehow ...

Around the corner from a defunct for-profit prison owned by Tennessee-based CoreCivic, Marcia Levering walked carefully ...

A former Leavenworth Detention Center officer is sharing her story as the city of Leavenworth fights with the facility’s ...

Company officials say they don't need permission to house federal immigration detainees at a shuttered prison. LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — The Leavenworth City Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The City of Leavenworth has filed a federal lawsuit against private prison operator CoreCivic ... The lawsuit, filed this week in Kansas, claims CoreCivic lost its ...

On the outskirts of Leavenworth, Kansas, sits an imposing concrete structure ringed with razor wire fencing. The prison hasn’t held ... the first month of the new administration saw Immigration ...

But it speaks volumes that CoreCivic couldn’t bear even this small amount of accountability,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas ... the prison company’s plan for the Leavenworth ...

Located in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas ... privately operated prison companies. CoreCivic, an owner/operator of prisons, is attempting to reopen a shuttered federal prison in Leavenworth as a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An inmate died Saturday, March 29, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Leavenworth ... per the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP). Heredia-Chang came to the correctional ...

Kansas man was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to child sex crimes last month. Gilberto Mendoza Jr. was sentenced in Leavenworth County court to more than 11 years in prison for two ...