The City Commission in Leavenworth approved a permit to private prison operator CoreCivic. Members voted 4-1 to approve a ...

We're breaking down the Leavenworth City Commission's decision to grant a permit that clears the way for a private ICE detention center.

By the time you read this, those swept up in ICE raids may already be filling some of the 1,000 beds at a troubled for-profit prison in Leavenworth now turned federal detention facility. The last ...

Leavenworth cleared the way for CoreCivic to open an ICE detention center, approving a zoning permit Tuesday night after a ...

The Tennessee-based company first opened a detention center in Leavenworth in 1992. Its reputation has been marked by ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house detained immigrants after a nearly yearlong legal fight amid a massive national push for ...

The city commission voted to grant a permit allowing private corrections company CoreCivic to hold over 1,000 federal ...

CoreCivic, America's largest private prison chain, is doing something its executives and lawyers have repeatedly argued it shouldn't have to do - ask permission. The city of Leavenworth announced on ...

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 ...

The Leavenworth City Commission voted Tuesday night to grant CoreCivic a special use permit to operate an ICE detention center.

CoreCivic can’t house immigration detainees before reaching an agreement with the city of Leavenworth on reopening its private prison ...

Mason Wollersheim Wollersheim pleaded not guilty to the charges, including attempted escape, conspiracy, resisting arrest and assault.