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CoreCivic Kills People. Leavenworth Is Voting on Whether to Let Them Do It Here.

CoreCivic Kills People. Leavenworth Is Voting on Whether to Let Them Do It Here.

Leavenworth was founded by pro-slavery settlers and became the epicenter of Bleeding Kansas. That same city votes today on whether to resurrect a CoreCivic detention facility — a company that has already killed people in its custody — and open a 1,000-bed ICE camp to kidnap, cage, and disappear immigrants from our region. The shackles have always looked different here. This morning, Leavenworth decides what they look like in 2026.

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