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 attorneys asked a Leavenworth District Court judge Wednesday to dismiss three counts in a case filed by the City of ...

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 ...

Seemingly undeterred by legal setbacks, private prison company CoreCivic is on a hiring spree to staff a Leavenworth ...

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

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

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

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.

TOPEKA — A Leavenworth District Court judge finalized his decision to bar CoreCivic from housing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement prisoners at its closed facility, rejecting the private ...