The former Leavenworth detention center, empty since 2021, could soon serve as an immigration detention facility if city ...

Leavenworth's city manager confirmed Monday the city received CoreCivic's application Friday for an ICE detention center.

The 1,100-bed complex closed in 2021 when President Joe Biden issued an executive order against contracts with private prisons. Before that, CoreCivic in Leavenworth was working with the U.S. Marshals ...

Leavenworth city officials say an ICE detention center is in talks of opening in the city. CoreCivic, the company that owns the former Leavenworth detention center, applied for a permit to use the ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, residents are keeping a watchful eye on the former Leavenworth Detention Center building now that the ownership group has expressed interest in utilizing the facility as a U.S ...

An audit released Tuesday by the Justice Department’s inspector general found that the Leavenworth Detention Center was chronically understaffed, tried to hide the practice of triple-bunking ...

Kansas ACLU director Micah Kubic is concerned about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's proposal for a detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas. The facility would be run by the for-profit ...