Leavenworth Kansas

The Trump administration’s promised deportations have private prison operator CoreCivic moving to use the inactive Kansas facility to house federal detainees. Some former employees and immigrant rights advocates are pushing back.

CoreCivic, through its Leavenworth prison, wants to hold up to 1,000 detained immigrants. The United States does not have enough prison cells to meet mass deportation promise.

More than 100 inmates have sought to have their convictions vacated or their sentences reduced, claiming their Sixth Amendment rights were violated.

The lawsuits was sparked by disclosures that privileged attorney-client phone calls and meetings were recorded at the Leavenworth Detention Center.

The federal public defender's office in Kansas says it’s entitled to nearly $224,000 in legal fees because of prosecutor misconduct in an explosive case...

This story was updated at 10 a.m. on Sept. 12, 2019, to reflect comments from the Bureau of Prisons. The federal Bureau of Prisons will provide opioid...

Less than two weeks after a judge issued a blistering opinion on the taping of attorney-client conversations at the Leavenworth Detention Center, a...

More than 1,300 phone calls between public defenders and inmates awaiting trial at the Leavenworth detention facility were improperly recorded over a...