A former Leavenworth Detention Center officer is sharing her story as the city of Leavenworth fights with the facility’s ...

A Washburn University professor broke down the lawsuit the City of Leavenworth filed against CoreCivic after the company ...

The administration is signing billion-dollar contracts with private prison operators. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is attempting to increase its detention capacity by 100,000.

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LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The City of Leavenworth has filed a federal lawsuit against private prison operator CoreCivic ... The lawsuit, filed this week in Kansas, claims CoreCivic lost its ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Kansas’ only women’s prison in Topeka is once again approaching full capacity, continuing a decades-long trend of rising female incarceration rates. Before the COVID-19 ...

LEAVENWORTH—A man recently indicted on drug charges died over the weekend in the federal prison in Leavenworth. Just after 7 p.m. Saturday, prison officials found 28-year-old Denix Heredia-Chang ...

Denix Heredia-Chang, 28, was pronounced dead after he was found unresponsive while being held at the U.S. penitentiary in Leavenworth, prison officials ... District Court in Kansas City, Kansas ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An inmate died Saturday, March 29, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Leavenworth, Kansas. Around 7:15 p.m., Denix Heredia-Chang, 28, was ...

Denix Heredia-Chang was found unresponsive about 7:15 p.m. Saturday at the Federal Correctional Institution in Leavenworth, prison officials said ... first appearance in the U.S. District Court in ...

ELLSWORTH, Kan. (KSNW) — A new child-friendly visitation space at Ellsworth Correctional Facility aims to make family connections easier, thanks to a partnership between Kansas Corrections and ...

The Kansas Department of Corrections has opened a newly-designed visitation area at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility. The new area is more child-centered, with interactive tools and learning ...