As long as they don’t detain anybody, they can hire as many people as they like,” said Leavenworth City Manager Scott ...

Private prison company CoreCivic is temporarily barred from holding detainees at its Leavenworth facility, but preparations to reopen are continuing.

CoreCivic attorneys asked a Leavenworth District Court judge Wednesday to dismiss three counts in a case filed by the City of ...

The for-profit prison company argued in court that Leavenworth is illegally obstructing President Trump’s immigration policy ...

Leavenworth, Kan., was forged by the corrections industry, but residents are divided over plans for a privately operated ...

CoreCivic argues the resolution is illegal because it has already operated the facility for more than a decade without a special use permit.

TOPEKA — The city of Leavenworth and CoreCivic will take their fight to court June 25 to determine whether the company can reopen its prison facility as an ICE detention center without going ...

CoreCivic — which has been in Leavenworth for decades — was grandfathered in, but it stopped housing inmates, per an executive order in 2021. By the city standards, it closed.

LEAVENWORTH — A Kansas district court barred CoreCivic Wednesday from reopening its shuttered prison until the company goes through Leavenworth’s development process to receive a special use ...

Leavenworth’s complaint opens with an extended quote from U.S. District Court Judge Julie A. Robinson, who in September 2021 called CoreCivic’s detention center “an absolute hell hole.” ...

CoreCivic’s plan to reopen a private ICE detention center in Leavenworth faces community protests and a legal dispute over ...

CoreCivic Leavenworth leadership has abandoned any pretense of order inside the facility. If CoreCivic remains open, these constitutional violations likely will continue to occur, putting staff ...