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Dozens of spectators filled the seats of the Leavenworth courtroom and spilled out into the hallway during Monday’s hearing.
A Leavenworth County judge will decide whether to reconsider his previous ruling temporarily barring CoreCivic from opening ...
John Richmeier/Leavenworth Times CoreCivic is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the city of Leavenworth. Attorneys ...
A Leavenworth County judge heard from lawyers from the city of Leavenworth, Kansas, and CoreCivic during a motion hearing ...
A courtroom packed with people listened to arguments involving a private company’s plans to bring Immigration and Customs ...
John Richmeier/Leavenworth Times A Leavenworth County district judge listened to arguments Monday but made no decision on ...
Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, ...
The Trump administration is planning to use more for-profit prisons to house ICE detainees — raising concerns about some well ...
As KMBC has previously reported, CoreCivic hasn’t housed inmates at its Leavenworth facility since the Biden administration stopped keeping detainees for the U.S. Marshals Service there in 2022 ...
Kansas Judge John J. Bryant will rule on CoreCivic’s motion to reverse a temporary restraining order, which would allow the company to operate an ICE prison in Leavenworth.