Politicians mark start of $532 million project to replace Leavenworth’s 126-year-old penitentiary

U.S. Bureau of Prisons employees in American Federation of Government Employees Local 919 picket outside the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth to bring attention to staff shortages. They stood at the entrance where dignitaries arrived for groundbreaking of a new federal prison. TIM CARPENTER/KANSAS REFLECTOR
BY TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector LEAVENWORTH — Heavy construction machinery did the real work in advance of Monday’s groundbreaking for a $532 million Leavenworth federal…
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