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| U.S. Officials Consider Illinois Prison to House Detainees |
| By voanews.com |
| Published: 11/23/2009 |
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When President Barack Obama announced he planned to close the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that raised the question -- where to send the facilities' terrorist suspects. Lawmakers in several states with suitable facilities say they don't want them. But some lawmakers and residents in tiny Thomson, Illinois hope the detainees end up in their town. When it was built in 2001, the Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois was supposed to house the hardest criminals in the state. Instead, it has sat mostly vacant as Illinois descended into a budget crisis. "This is the second largest capital expenditure the state of Illinois ever made, and it's sitting here idle," said Jonathan Whitney, the publisher of the Carroll County Review. "We're tiny, we're here in the heart of America, and have been. The paper dates back to 1863. We cover local news, but in this case, it happens to be national news." Read More. |
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