The article below, by The Marshall Plan, details the town’s plan to permanently block CoreCivic from obtaining a new permit to operate their existing facility, which closed for cause.
Neither the inmates or prison guards were safe and one young person awaiting trail died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. His life could have been saved, he was 28.
Many more abuses are cited and the towns people, many who voted for Trump, are against the CoreCivic contract. The townspeople know CoreCivic puts profit above the lives of people.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/01/leavenworth-kansas-immigration-prison-fight