There are bigger buildings in Kansas than the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth. But none of them have walls that extend 40 feet below the ground. The labor to build such a massive project ...

At a boisterous court hearing Monday, America’s largest for-profit prison company asked a Kansas judge to reconsider whether it should be allowed to reopen its shuttered Leavenworth prison as an ...

A judge’s repeated rulings blocking CoreCivic from reopening as an immigrant detention center on the outskirts of Leavenworth haven’t stopped the company from hiring workers. The for-profit prison ...

The federal government joined the private prison company CoreCivic in its legal fight against the city of Leavenworth, which has been fighting in court to stop the reopening of a controversial ...