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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to holding immigrants for deportation.

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 ...

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 ...