Biden Ended Contracts with Private Prisons. So One May Turn To House Immigrants
A for-profit detention center in Kansas that's been plagued with violence may be trying to do an end-run against a presidential executive order by moving to house immigrant detainees.
People locked up in the Leavenworth Detention Center have been reaching out for help nearly every day.
The for-profit facility, which houses federal prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing, has been on 24-hour lockdown since a person died there last month. The death followed months of violence targeting both detainees and corrections officers inside the center just 30 miles from Kansas City.
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