The local represents more than 400 prison workers who live in an area that stretches from St. Joseph, Mo., to Lawrence, he said. The cuts follow transformation of the Leavenworth penitentiary late ...

Matthew Kelly On the outskirts of Leavenworth sits an imposing concrete structure ringed with razor wire fencing. The prison hasn’t held an inmate in over three years, but its for-profit ...

An 18-year-old Fort Leavenworth man convicted for making school shooting threats at Leavenworth High School last year has ...

On the outskirts of Leavenworth, Kansas, sits an imposing concrete structure ringed with razor wire fencing. The prison hasn’t ... matching-grant funds. Get breaking news delivered to your ...

Travis Earl Collins was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison after a Douglas County jury ... beside a red Ford F-250 along the 1700 block of Rock Island Road, according to Douglas County ...

CoreCivic, an owner/operator of prisons, is attempting to reopen a shuttered federal prison in Leavenworth as a detention ... “If you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt ...