Leavenworth argues that CoreCivic needs a new permit due to the facility's inactivity, while CoreCivic claims it maintained ...

Emily Curiel [email protected] CoreCivic, the second largest private prison company in America, is seeking to reactivate a shuttered facility in Leavenworth as a U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

"I know at the main prison at top there was guys going, you know, defecating in plastic bags," he said. News Chopper 9 on Friday showed inmates moving around the yard at FCI Leavenworth.

He’d been reading through a 2017 U.S. Department of Justice audit on the place where he once worked in Leavenworth ... to stop allowing detainees in the yard, an outdoor break they relished ...

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

Kendall Gott walks through the The U.S. Military Prison Cemetery at Fort Leavenworth, which is the final resting place for 298 unclaimed bodies of soldiers who died in the United States ...

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Denix Heredia-Chang, 28, was pronounced dead after he was found unresponsive while being held at the U.S. penitentiary in Leavenworth, prison officials said. U.S. Bureau of Prisons A 28-year-old ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An inmate died Saturday, March 29, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Leavenworth, Kansas. Around 7:15 p.m., Denix Heredia-Chang, 28, was ...

CoreCivic and the city of Leavenworth are in a legal dispute over the required permits for reopening a private immigration detention center. Leavenworth argues that CoreCivic needs a new permit ...

CoreCivic argues that its empty, non-operational facility — which hasn’t held a single detainee going on four years — somehow counts as continually in use. CoreCivic argues that its empty ...