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Based on interviews with people inside the prison and their attorneys, immigrants face unsanitary and crowded living quarters ...
The city of Leavenworth won a temporary restraining order Wednesday barring CoreCivic from placing ICE detainees in its ...
A judge in Kansas issued a Wednesday ruling determining that a private prison operator could not use its shuttered facility to house detainees from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
A Kansas district court barred CoreCivic Wednesday from reopening its shuttered prison until following Leavenworth’s ...
Judge John J. Bryant’s ruling comes as a major victory for the city of Leavenworth two weeks after a federal court rejected a ...
A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City ...
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 ...
A picture shared by U.S. Army WTF! Moments social media shows an inmate at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, being recaptured after a failed escape attempt, Task ...
Today, it houses more than 1,400 inmates ... reporting inhumane conditions at Leavenworth, which had been on lockdown for weeks. The Bureau of Prisons said a firearm had possibly gotten into ...
Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged ...