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Police arrested at least two protesters at the tense Leavenworth City Commission meeting Tuesday in which leaders gave permission for private prison company CoreCivic to reopen its Kansas facility as an immigration detention center. Nineteen-year-old Jalen Brown and 33-year-old Adam Meysing were taken to the county jail and held on unspecified charges at $250 cash bail, sheriff’s office records show. They were both released after the meeting ended, when fellow protesters showed up at the jail and raised money to post their bail. One person interrupted the commissioner’s meeting by standing and shouting, “It will be your fault when people die in this facility.” As officers pulled him from his row, the protester yelled, “Detention without due process is a concentration camp.” Within days, immigrants arrested by federal authorities could find themselves locked inside CoreCivic’s prison on the outskirts of Leavenworth after the Leavenworth City Commission approved the private prison chain’s zoning permit. Read more at the link in our bio. 🎥: Tammy Ljungblad/The Star (@kctammy)
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