Robert Stroud, known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, started studying birds while in prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Attorneys for Leavenworth filed suit in March in U.S. District Court against the Nashville-based company, which ran the Leavenworth Detention Center before it was closed in 2021.

The Bureau of Prisons moved him to the medium-security federal correctional institution ... be temporary,” Almonte said. Leavenworth, nicknamed “the Big House” or “Big Top,” was the ...

The Trump administration’s promised deportations have private prison ... Kansas facility to house federal detainees. Some former employees and immigrant rights advocates are pushing back ...

A federal court ... contracts with private prisons. The potential reopening of the detention center led to protests in Leavenworth. A small group comprised of the Kansas ACLU, the Sisters of ...

frequently connecting with the federal halfway house, where many defendants are released after serving most of their prison sentences or while awaiting sentencing, according to Martinek.

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San ... about 30 years behind bars in Kansas at U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth, now known as Federal Correctional Institution, Leavenworth.

Leavenworth, Kansas, is a prison town ... facility was plagued by allegations of violent and inhumane conditions, prompting one federal judge to label the prison “an absolute hell hole.” Now, with ...

THE FCI IN BERLIN IS PART OF AN INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT WITH THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS. THAT AGENCY SAYS THE OTHER FACILITIES IN THE AGREEMENT ARE IN MIAMI AND KANSAS, PHILADELPHIA AND IN ATLANTA.