Leavenworth Detention Center

The Leavenworth Detention Center is a privately run maximum-security federal prison located in Leavenworth, Kansas. The facility is owned and operated by the Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the United States Marshals Service.When originally constructed as a 460-bed private prison, it was the first correctional facility under direct contract with a U.S. federal agency. In May 2008 the facility underwent its fourth expansion to increase capacity to 1,126 inmates. It holds both male and female prisoners.Leavenworth prisonsThe Leavenworth Detention Facility is one of five state, federal and military prisons in the Leavenworth / Lansing area. The other four are: the Lansing Correctional Facility, operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth (USP) and its satellite prison camp, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons the United States Disciplinary Barracks, the U.S. military's only maximum-security facility the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, another U.S. military facility