KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The federal government has signed a deal with the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, as part of a surge of contracts from U.S.

At a boisterous court hearing Monday, America’s largest for-profit prison company asked a Kansas judge to reconsider whether it should be allowed to reopen its shuttered Leavenworth prison as an ...

Leavenworth District Judge John Bryant again barred CoreCivic from reopening its prison facility until court hearings can determine whether the company has to go through the Leavenworth development ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — While the court battle continues about whether hundreds of ICE detainees will be funneled into the CoreCivic prison in Leavenworth, residents continue having their own debates ...

AT A LEAVENWORTH FACILITY. TODAY, A JUDGE HEARD ARGUMENTS IN A CITY ZONING CASE WHICH COULD DECIDE THE FATE OF THE FACILITY. KMBC NINE S ANDY ALCOCK WAS INSIDE A LEAVENWORTH COUNTY COURTROOM THIS ...

The clergy, 250 strong, gathered on the steps of the Kansas City Convention Center. They proclaimed a clear, moral argument opposing the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign targeting ...

NO WORD YET ON WHAT CAUSED THE FIRE. THE LEGAL FIGHT CONTINUES IN LEAVENWORTH GROUPS ARE UPSET OVER THE POSSIBLE OPENING OF A PRIVATELY OWNED ICE DETENTION FACILITY. CORECIVIC IS THE COMPANY WANTING ...

KSHB 41 reporter Rachel Henderson covers neighborhoods in Wyandotte and Leavenworth counties. She has done multiple stories on the battle between the City of Levenworth and CoreCivic. Share your story ...

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 ...