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

Leavenworth is a city of prisons.The area is home to five separate facilities, including a federal penitentiary, a state prison, and the U.S. military’s only maximum security prison.

is attempting to reopen a shuttered federal prison in Leavenworth as a detention center capable of holding about 1,000 immigrants for an average stay of 51 days. Saturday, March 1, CoreCivic is ...

But there's one detention facility that Leavenworth city officials don't want. It's the for-profit prison that would hold ICE ...

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

The program, run by the Prison Fellowship, allows incarcerated parents to provide a gift with a handwritten note to their ...

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 ...

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 found unresponsive.

Leavenworth? Dozens of union employees, retired workers and supporters staged two days of picketing outside the U.S. Penitentiary here, protesting staff reductions and the treatment of a combat ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On the outskirts of Leavenworth, Kansas, sits an imposing concrete structure ringed with razor wire fencing. The prison hasn’t held an inmate in over three years ...

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