The struggle against a controversial facility continues and this is one of the most comprehensive reports we've sen so far . . . Check the premise . . .
Leavenworth, Kansas, is a prison town best known for the federal prison which housed notorious figures like Machine Gun Kelly, James Earl Ray, and Tom Pendergast. It also housed Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who spent nearly a decade there in the 1980s and 1990s, and was recently freedby President Joe Biden.
The private prison in Leavenworth operated by CoreCivic is less well known but has been plagued by problems. CoreCivic built the facility during the prison boom of the early 1990s to hold citizens pretrial in federal detention for the U.S. Marshals Service. It was shut down in 2021 after a judge deemed it a “hell hole.”
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