The penitentiary has over the years housed such infamous criminals as George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, James Earl ...

CoreCivic will know by Friday whether it will have to delay plans to begin holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

The city of Leavenworth and CoreCivic will take their fight to court June 9 to determine whether the company can reopen its ...

Two inmates attempted to escape at Fort Leavenworth’s U.S. Disciplinary ... published a story on the attempted prison break earlier this week. Public safety was maintained throughout the ...

While serving time at McNeil Island, a federal prison on an island in Puget Sound, in Washington state, Stroud stabbed another inmate. That earned him a transfer to Leavenworth, according to the ...

is now a resident of the U.S. penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan. The Bureau of Prisons moved him to the medium-security federal correctional institution on April 16. Pettit, 58, had been locked ...