A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants detained for living ...

The city commission voted to grant a permit allowing private corrections company CoreCivic to hold over 1,000 federal ...

CoreCivic will reopen its private prison in Leavenworth to house immigration detainees after city commissioners approved the company’s special use permit on Tuesday, the result of a ...

The Tennessee-based company first opened a detention center in Leavenworth in 1992. Its reputation has been marked by ...

"If the city is not going to listen to its own residents, what other choice do we have?" a fourth-generation Leavenworth resident said.

Leavenworth cleared the way for CoreCivic to open an ICE detention center, approving a zoning permit Tuesday night after a yearslong battle.

Leavenworth city commissioners will decide Tuesday whether to allow a private prison operator to reopen its prison as an ICE detention center after a judge issued a temporary injunction blocking the ...

Leavenworth's city commission will vote Tuesday on a CoreCivic permit to reopen a former prison as an ICE detention facility.

CoreCivic said Wednesday it expects to start accepting immigration detainees at its Leavenworth facility "in the coming weeks," one day after city commissioners approved the permit needed to reopen ...

The Leavenworth City Commission voted Tuesday to grant CoreCivic a special use permit to operate an ICE detention center.

CoreCivic applied this week to receive a special use permit from Leavenworth to reopen its prison as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee center, called the Midwest Regional Reception ...

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 near ...