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6 gru 2021 · The Leavenworth Detention Center is a 1,033-bed prison that opened in 1992. The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General examined the prison in a 2017 report that found a number of...
8 gru 2021 · The U.S. Marshals Service’s (USMS) lease at the Leavenworth Detention Center ends on Dec. 31 and won’t be renewed. That comes after President Biden issued an executive order early this year to curtail the Justice Department’s use of private prisons.
14 gru 2021 · The U.S. Marshals Service’s (USMS) lease at the Leavenworth Detention Center ends on Dec. 31 and won’t be renewed. That comes after President Biden issued an executive order early this year to curtail the Justice Department’s use of private prisons.
15 wrz 2021 · Advocates in four Midwestern states say those incidents and other alleged constitutional violations happened this year at Kansas' Leavenworth Detention Center, which houses federal prisoners...
21 wrz 2023 · Leavenworth County officials voted unanimously Wednesday to halt discussions over whether to convert a former private federal jail into a detention center for immigration enforcement.
7 paź 2021 · The Leavenworth Detention Center, a pretrial lockup run by the nation’s largest private prison operator, CoreCivic, has been the site of two suicides and at least 10 severe beatings and stabbings this year, according to attorneys representing inmates there.
3 wrz 2021 · KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The violence and neglect suffered by inmates at a pre-trial detention facility in Leavenworth has become so severe the facility should be shut down, a group of civil rights leaders and public defenders wrote in a letter to officials in Kansas and Washington, D.C.
