Protesters gather March 10, 2026, outside Leavenworth City Hall to encourage city commissioners to vote against a permit that allows private prison company CoreCivic to reopen in the community. (Photo ...

STAY OUT OF THAT BUILDING FOR AN HOUR. BEATINGS, DEATHS AND INJURIES. THOSE ALL TOOK PLACE AT A PRIVATE PRISON IN LEAVENWORTH UNTIL IT GOT SHUT DOWN BACK IN 2021. BUT THE COMPANY THAT RUNS IT WANTS TO ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing ...

At a boisterous court hearing Monday, America’s largest for-profit prison company asked a Kansas judge to reconsider whether it should be allowed to reopen its shuttered Leavenworth prison as an ...

CoreCivic applied this week to receive a special use permit from Leavenworth to reopen its prison as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee center, called the Midwest Regional Reception ...

Last week, the Leavenworth City Commission voted to allow CoreCivic to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the same space it once ran a prison described by a federal ...

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. Despite ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Leavenworth, Kansas, was found unresponsive Sunday night. Around 9:42 p.m., employees initiated life-saving measures on ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - A Leavenworth man will spend at least 50 years in prison before parole eligibility after a jury convicted him of multiple child sex crimes. Leavenworth County Attorney Todd ...