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Leavenworth, Kansas – 3 March 2025
1. Close up of barbed wire
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Hanna, The Associated Press:
“I’m standing in front of CoreCivics prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.”
3. CoreCivic sign outside of Midwest Regional Reception Center
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Hanna, The Associated Press:
“It’s been closed since 2021.”
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Leavenworth, Kansas – 3 March 2025
5. Inmate cells and seating area inside Midwest Regional Reception Center
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6. 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.”
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Leavenworth, Kansas – 3 March 2025
7. Panning shot of inmate cells and seating area inside Midwest Regional Reception Center
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8. 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.”
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Leavenworth, Kansas – 3 March 2025
9. View from above of inmate holding area
10. Wide view of outdoor recreation area at Midwest Regional Reception Center
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11. 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.”
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Leavenworth, Kansas – 6 June 2025
12. CoreCivic sign outside of Midwest Regional Reception Center
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13. 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.”
14. Door to outdoor recreation area at Midwest Regional Reception Center
15. Medium view of outdoor recreation area at Midwest Regional Reception Center
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Leavenworth, Kansas – 6 June 2025
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16. 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.”
17. Various of protestors holding signs
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Leavenworth, Kansas – 3 March 2025
18. Close up of barbed wire
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.”
Now Kansas’ oldest city could soon be detaining far less famous people, migrants swept up in President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations of those living in the U.S. illegally.
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