Much of the new allocation from Congress will go to private prison contractors tasked with doubling the nation’s capacity to ...

The Trump administration is planning to use more for-profit prisons to house ICE detainees — raising concerns about some well ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

When CoreCivic applied earlier this year for a permit in Leavenworth, Kansas to reopen a migrant detention facility, city ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used the pretense of a national emergency to justify a secret, no-bid contract with ...

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rushed a no-bid contract to pay CoreCivic $4.2 million per month to house ...

Last week, attorneys for the city of Leavenworth expressed concern that activity at CoreCivic's local facility has been accelerated. But attorneys for CoreCivic argue this assertion is inaccurate ...

CoreCivic has signed a contract with ICE and would make $4.2 million a month if it's allowed to open an ICE detention center ...

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city ...

The federal government has signed a deal with the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in Leavenworth as part of a surge of contracts ICE has issued without seeking ...

Fred Brown, a Leavenworth resident, has worked in corrections for nearly 40 years, including over 30 years at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. After a brief retirement, Brown joined CoreCivic at the ...

LEAVENWORTH — A Kansas district court barred CoreCivic Wednesday from reopening its shuttered prison until the company goes through Leavenworth’s development process to receive a special use ...