Leavenworth Against ICE Redux

More progressive celebration against a local lock-up . . . Check-it:

There’s one detention facility that Leavenworth city officials don’t want.

It’s the newly (and Orwellian) named Midwest Regional Reception Center, a for-profit prison that would hold ICE detainees gathered in massive raids now undertaken by the Trump administration. The center would be located in the former Leavenworth Detention Facility, in operation from 1992 to 2021, which a federal judge once called “an absolute hell hole.”

Owned and managed by CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison firm, the Leavenworth Detention Facility was a nightmare of humanitarian and civil rights abuses where both guards and inmates feared for their lives, according to court documents. Operated under a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service, in 2017 the Office of Inspector General issued a 129-page audit that found chronic understaffing and mismanagement.

Abuses continued even after the audit.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Reflector: This Kansas town knows prisons. It doesn’t want a for-profit company opening a ‘hell hole’ for ICE.