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 dormant Leavenworth facility. Yet ...

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

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

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

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

Tennessee-based CoreCivic is looking to hire detention officers as it negotiates federal contracts to reopen two vacant prisons in Oklahoma.

As ICE expands its presence across the Midwest, activists fight the reopening of private prisons to jail migrants.

The City of Leavenworth and CoreCivic continue their legal battle in Leavenworth District Court while public opposition to ...

Two of the nation's largest companies operating private jails are reporting spikes in revenue thanks to the Trump ...

Leavenworth residents like Sean Muddy are going off what they do know — like CoreCivic’s violent history at the former Leavenworth Detention Center. “I was glad they shut down back in 2021 ...

CoreCivic, the private prison firm, signed a deal with the federal government to reopen the over 1,000-bed prison in Leavenworth as part of a surge of contracts U.S. Immigration and Customs ...