The city of Leavenworth has netted a momentary victory in its battle to force private prison operator CoreCivic to follow the ...

A Kansas district court barred CoreCivic Wednesday from reopening its shuttered prison until following Leavenworth’s ...

Judge John J. Bryant’s ruling comes as a major victory for the city of Leavenworth two weeks after a federal court rejected a ...

A judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing CoreCivic from housing ICE detainees at its Leavenworth facility ...

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City ...

Today, we’re looking at what life has been like for the men detained by federal immigration authorities at a Leavenworth ...

Heavy rainfall Tuesday led to significant flooding along Kansas Highway 5 in Leavenworth County, forcing local residents to ...

Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. Leavenworth, Kansas, is a prison town. But there’s one prison local officials aren’t interested in: An immigration detention center ...

Some former employees and immigrant rights advocates are pushing back. LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Nestled into the crook of a wooded two-lane highway on the edge of northeast Kansas, a complex of ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Nestled into the crook of a wooded two-lane highway on the edge of northeast Kansas, a complex of concrete and barbed wire sits mostly vacant — for now. For over a ...

Beal, who runs the Leavenworth Kansas Neighborhood Watch Facebook page, said the track record of violence at the private prison before it closed in 2021 does not bode well for anyone who might be ...

This lawsuit was filed on March 31, 2025, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas by the City of Leavenworth, Kansas, against CoreCivic, Inc. (Case No. 5:25-cv-4032).