There are bigger buildings in Kansas than the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth. But none of them have walls that extend 40 feet below the ground. The labor to build such a massive project ...

I am fascinated by the federal penitentiary, I confess to Ken LaMaster, historian of the big house in Leavenworth. Does that make me weird? “No, you know what? That probably makes you as normal as you ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is backing CoreCivic in its legal battle with the city of Leavenworth as the company seeks to reopen a shuttered prison it owns there as an immigrant detention center ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, Relents and Will Allow a Private Prison to Reopen and House Immigrants TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - In a Topeka courtroom Wednesday, September 24, CoreCivic, with the support of Washington D.C.’s Department of Justice went before a judge along with attorneys representing ...

The city of Leavenworth has a new plan for preventing CoreCivic from housing immigrant detainees at its maximum-security facility as soon as next week. A day after U.S. District Court Judge Toby ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — While the court battle continues about whether hundreds of ICE detainees will be funneled into the CoreCivic prison in Leavenworth, residents continue having their own debates ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants detained for living in the U.S. illegally after a nearly yearlong legal fight ...