KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An inmate died Wednesday morning at the United States Penitentiary Leavenworth. At 6:20 a.m., 24-year-old Stephon Dickens was found unresponsive and staff at the facility ...

An inmate has been found dead at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The U.S. Department of Justice said that Juan Pablo Perez-Gomez, 31, was found dead on Oct. 19.

Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time.

Warden J.W. French of the first and only United States penitentiary, that which was opened at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., on the abolition of the military prison at that post June 30, 1895, has just ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 7.-The most successful prison mutiny ever attempted in this section was put in execution at the new United States Penitentiary site on the Fort Leavenworth Reservation this ...

The Imprisonment Of Will And William West. In May 1903, Will West sat down for intake at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The clerk looked up and immediately recognized him.

Passover at Leavenworth. April 5, 1934. ... Jewish chaplain, in the United States Penitentiary and annex during the first two nights of the festival Louis Kranitz, of St. Joseph, ...