The lawsuits allege jail staff denied the woman lifesaving medical care as she went through opioid withdrawal.

In a months-long fight to open an ICE detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas, CoreCivic revealed in a recent court filing ...

The main gate of the privately run Leavenworth Detention Center in 2016. At the time, the prison's operator was known as the Corrections Corporation of America but has since been renamed CoreCivic ...

This 2016 file photo shows the main gate of the Leavenworth Detention Center. The facility is operated by private prison company CoreCivic. Orlin Wagner AP A former corrections officer for the ...

Grant is among several ex-Leavenworth prison guards who have been accused of smuggling contraband into the privately-run federal prison. In December, Willie Golden was charged with conspiracy.

SUNDAY MORNING AT 11 HERE ON KMBC NINE. THE LEAVENWORTH FEDERAL PENITENTIARY IS NO LONGER ON LOCKDOWN. TONIGHT WE’RE DIGGING INTO WHY THE FACILITY RESTRICTED THE MOVEMENT OF INMATES FOR NEARLY ...

The prison was converted from a maximum to a medium security facility in 2005. It remains today much the same way it was when it was first built, with obvious updates to plumbing, wiring, and ...

THE HOT HOUSE: LIFE INSIDE LEAVENWORTH PRISON. Pete Earley. Bantam. 381 pages, $22.50. The federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., was designed to resemble the Capitol in Washington. The architects we… ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A man serving time at the Leavenworth Penitentiary died a day after he arrived at the prison. The Bureau of Prisons says staff found 39-year-old Nolan Otto Dewall around 12 p ...