ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds

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Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a shorthand 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 Trump's promise of mass deportations of those living in the U.S. illegally.

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