Local residents have voiced opposition for a number of reasons, including the shuttered prison’s history of violence and ...

The City of Leavenworth has filed a federal lawsuit against private prison operator CoreCivic, alleging the company is attempting to reopen a previously shuttered detention facility without obtaining ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An inmate died Saturday, March 29, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Leavenworth, Kansas. Around ...

The City of Leavenworth passed a resolution Tuesday night as CoreCivic planned to reopen the former prison without a permit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEAVENWORTH—A man recently indicted on drug charges died over the weekend in the federal prison in Leavenworth. Just after 7 ...

but he said lower staffing levels won’t work because Leavenworth’s old-style prison configuration is so different from what he called new “cookie-cutter” medium-security prisons.

A day room attached to cells at the Midwest Regional Reception Center private prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, Matthew Kelly Some of those detainees are already being held in a different Leavenworth ...