KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A former nurse at the Kansas City VA Medical Center will spend the next decade in a federal prison for child pornography crimes. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western ...

Protesters cluster outside of the Leavenworth County District Court before a hearing between the city and CoreCivic. The federal government joined the private prison company CoreCivic in its legal ...

Marcus Abeyta will spend 15 years in federal prison for production of child pornography after victimizing a minor he met while playing an online video game. Jonathan D. Ross, United States attorney ...

The city of Leavenworth's efforts to block CoreCivic from reopening its jail facility as an immigrant detention center without a permit are an attempt to supersede federal laws and block President ...

CoreCivic won’t be filling its empty Leavenworth detention center with immigrants anytime soon. U.S. District Court Judge Toby Crouse dealt the private prison company its latest in a string of legal ...

A 33-year-old federal inmate’s death by gunfire has exposed troubling questions about safety protocols and transparency within America’s prison system, leaving his devastated family searching for ...

Kansas Department of Corrections officials say drug-soaked paper delivered via mail, which incarcerated individuals can smoke or ingest to get high, is the reason for changing its print newspaper ...

In the days since a congressional budget impasse caused a federal government shutdown, public attention has largely focused on high-profile impacts like employee furloughs, air travel delays and ...