Flags continue to fly at CoreCivic's Midwest Regional Reception center in Leavenworth as the private prison company pushes forward with plans to open an ice detention facility, despite opposition.

About 60 people protested the opening of an ICE detention facility Wednesday outside a CoreCivic court hearing in Leavenworth District Court. (Morgan Chilson/Kansas Reflector) LEAVENWORTH — CoreCivic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CoreCivic Midwest Regional Reception Center, formerly Leavenworth Detention Center, at 100 Hwy Terrace is seen on Monday, March 3, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A judge’s repeated rulings blocking CoreCivic from reopening as an immigrant detention center on the outskirts of Leavenworth haven’t stopped the company from hiring workers. The for-profit prison ...

A colonel at Fort Leavenworth has been sentenced to 28 years in military prison and an Army dismissal after being convicted of sexual abuse charges in a military court, after being acquitted of ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is backing CoreCivic in its legal battle with the city of Leavenworth as the company seeks to reopen a shuttered prison it owns there as an immigrant detention center ...