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The federal government is paying a private prison in Leavenworth $4.2 million a month to reopen its facility. Mulvaney warns ...
CoreCivic has signed a contract with ICE and would make $4.2 million a month if it's allowed to open an ICE detention center ...
A Leavenworth woman will spend 30 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of production of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography.
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A Kansas resident was sentenced to 30 years in prison for charges related to child sexual abuse materials ...
CoreCivic and Geo Group push to reopen idle prisons amid Trump’s mass deportation plan, securing no-bid ICE contracts despite ...
Based on interviews with people inside the prison and attorneys representing those people, immigrants face unsanitary and crowded living quarters, extended lockdowns, delayed and costly medical ...
Prisons have long been an important part of Leavenworth’s economy ... the nation’s first federal penitentiary, a Kansas correctional facility and a county jail within 6 miles (10 kilometers ...
No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to holding immigrants for deportation.
Roughly 80 men in ICE custody are currently being held in the federal prison at Leavenworth. Advocates say conditions there are miserable.
Leavenworth, Kansas, a once-iconic site for housing infamous criminals, is under contention as a migrant detention hub amidst ...
Leavenworth Federal Correctional Institution ... TOPEKA — Immigrants being held inside a federal prison in northeast Kansas and their attorneys reported an unsanitary, inequitable and unhealthy ...