Apparently, private prison company CoreCivic never got the memo. Earlier this year, CoreCivic announced plans to re-open ...

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

Check-it: There’s one detention facility that Leavenworth city officials don’t want. It’s the newly (and Orwellian) named ...

Citing its responsibility to protect its constituents, the City of Leavenworth is reinforcing its belief that CoreCivic must obtain a special use permit to open an ICE detention facility.

William Rogers, a Wyandotte County resident and former prison guard who worked at CoreCivic’s Leavenworth facility from 2016 to 2020, said chronic understaffing precipitated rampant drug use and ...

NOW. WE ARE GETTING ANSWERS TONIGHT AFTER LEAVENWORTH CITY OFFICIALS ARE CONSIDERING AN ICE DETENTION CENTER IN THEIR CITY. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. I’M KRIS KETZ CORECIVIC, THE COMPANY THAT OWNS ...

Denix Heredia-Chang was pronounced dead after he was found unresponsive while being held at the U.S. penitentiary in Leavenworth, prison officials said.