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Community members held a press conference Thursday morning, thanking the city of Leavenworth for filing a lawsuit against ...
CoreCivic and the city of Leavenworth have gone back and forth on whether the old Leavenworth Detention Center can be reopened as an ICE Detention Center.
John Richmeier/Leavenworth Times The city of Leavenworth had its inaugural State of the City address this week. City Manager ...
Around the corner from a defunct for-profit prison owned by Tennessee-based CoreCivic, Marcia Levering walked carefully ...
Misty Mackey, warden at CoreCivic’s Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth Contributed photo Leavenworth is a city that understands, perhaps better than anywhere in the country, the ...
Several speakers told the commission that CoreCivic’s decision not to request a special use permit was a way to evade public scrutiny. The commission’s resolution rebukes the for-profit prison ...
Despite withdrawing an application to operate its shuttered jail facility as an immigrant detention center from the city of Leavenworth ... Civil Liberties Union of Kansas said in a statement.