Leavenworth, Kansas, Relents and Will Allow a Private Prison to Reopen and House Immigrants TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and ...

Former inmate Jermaine Wilson says Prison Fellowship helped transform his life as the ministry expands federally under the ...

Protesters gather March 10, 2026, outside Leavenworth City Hall to encourage city commissioners to vote against a permit that allows private prison company CoreCivic to reopen in the community. (Photo ...

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 ...

Demonstrators gather outside the Leavenworth courthouse to protest CoreCivic’s plans to reopen a shuttered facility on the outskirts of town as an immigrant detention center. Matthew Kelly The city of ...

There are bigger buildings in Kansas than the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth. But none of them have walls that extend 40 feet below the ground. The labor to build such a massive project ...

Last week, the Leavenworth City Commission voted to allow CoreCivic to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the same space it once ran a prison described by a federal ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - A Leavenworth man will spend more than 11 years in prison for the fentanyl death of a 3-year-old boy left in his care. Kenneth C. Hedgecock, 35, was sentenced on Wednesday, ...