The city of Leavenworth has a new plan for preventing CoreCivic from housing immigrant detainees at its maximum-security facility as soon as next week.

A day after U.S. District Court Judge Toby Crouse dismissed the federal lawsuit for lack of standing, city attorneys filed a complaint in Leavenworth County District Court Friday and requested a restraining order against the for-profit prison.

The city accuses CoreCivic of gross mismanagement before the facility’s closure in 2021, including failure to report crimes and at least one inmate death for days, repeatedly stonewalling police investigating reported sexual assaults and other serious allegations, and destroying evidence.

The lawsuit seeks to block detentions at the facility immediately and to prevent CoreCivic from making good o

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