(15 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leavenworth, Kansas – 3 March 2025
1. Inmate cells and seating area inside Midwest Regional Reception Center
2. Close up of barbed wire
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leavenworth, Kansas – 6 June 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) John Hanna, The Associated Press:
“I’m standing in front of CoreCivic’s prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.”
4. CoreCivic sign outside of facility
5. SOUNDBITE (English) John Hanna, The Associated Press:
“It’s been closed since 2021.”
6. Close up of CoreCivic sign outside of the Midwest Regional Reception Center
7. SOUNDBITE (English) John Hanna, The Associated Press:
“This detention center or prison and about 20 others like it that are idle across the United States have become a pretty crucial part of the Trump administration’s plans to expand the number of beds it has to hold immigrants who are living in the U.S. Illegally for deportation.”
8. Protestors holding signs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leavenworth, Kansas – 3 March 2025
9. Close up of barbed wire
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leavenworth, Kansas – 6 June 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) John Hanna, The Associated Press:
“If ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wants to add new beds quickly. Closed facilities like this are going to be among the first places they turn.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leavenworth, Kansas – 3 March 2025
11. Panning shot of inmate cells and seating area inside Midwest Regional Reception Center
12. View from above of inmate holding area
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Misty Mackey, warden, Midwest Regional Reception Center:
“We would have a contingency of male and female adult detainees at our facility is the need that they’re talking about at this moment. There wouldn’t be any family or children at our facility.”
14. Door to outdoor recreation area at Midwest Regional Reception Center
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Misty Mackey, warden, Midwest Regional Reception Center:
“The capacity of the facility is 1,033. So based on our contract with immigration, they’ll determine what their need is and what they wanna contract as far as bed space with us.”
16. Wide view of outdoor recreation area at Midwest Regional Reception Center
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Misty Mackey, warden, Midwest Regional Reception Center:
“So, we try to stay out of the policies of immigration, and our primary responsibility is providing the service to the government and fulfilling their needs.”
18. Medium view of outdoor recreation area at Midwest Regional Reception Center
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leavenworth, Kansas – 6 June 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Trapp, Founder, New American Community:
“If the facility is going to open at all someday, and I’m not going to say that I’m not going fight every step of that. If it does, I want it to operate with the greatest degree of safety, the greatest ability to protect residents and staff and the community and want to make sure that we have the best protocols in place.”
20. Close up of Keep the Immigrants, Deport the Racists sign
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Trapp, Founder, New American Community:
“What I would love is they should apply for the permit and drop the court shenanigans.”
22. Close up of Due Process Now sign
23. Close up of free Abrego Garcia sign
24. Person holding prison without due process sign
STORYLINE:
Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evokes a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly — in a building so storied that it inspired the term “the big house.”
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