Profiles in resistance: Residents of this Kansas town unite in opposition to ICE and CoreCivic

By: Baya Burgess

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 29, 2026

Words: 2,346

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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LEAVENWORTH — Amid a clash between a new immigration jail and the city that hosts it, residents from Leavenworth and nearby areas gathered last month to talk strategies for protecting people held in the facility.

For some, it was just the latest meeting in a long resistance against the jail opened by the private prison company CoreCivic.

Leavenworth, a small city in eastern Kansas, is known for embracing its multiple prisons and a military …

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