Profiles in resistance: Residents of this Kansas town unite in opposition to ICE and CoreCivic
Residents of Leavenworth, Kansas, have organized to oppose a private immigration jail operated by CoreCivic in their community.
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 […]
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