Protesters gather March 10, 2026, outside Leavenworth City Hall to encourage city commissioners to vote against a permit that allows private prison company CoreCivic to reopen in the community. (Photo ...

Now that there is an ICE detention facility in Leavenworth, supporters and opponents are looking for ways to hold CoreCivic ...

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 ...

Last week, the Leavenworth City Commission voted to allow CoreCivic to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the same space it once ran a prison described by a federal ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants detained for living in the U.S. illegally after a nearly yearlong legal ...

Detention Debate: Leavenworth leaders to decide on CoreCivic prison Leavenworth mayor Nancy Bauder joins Heart of the Matter to discuss what's next for the community as local leaders consider allowing ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - A Leavenworth man will spend at least 50 years in prison before parole eligibility after a jury convicted him of multiple child sex crimes. Leavenworth County Attorney Todd ...

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 ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - A Leavenworth man will spend more than 11 years in prison for the fentanyl death of a 3-year-old boy left in his care. Kenneth C. Hedgecock, 35, was sentenced on Wednesday, ...

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