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| Illinois prison likely to house detainees |
| By boston.com |
| Published: 12/07/2009 |
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CHICAGO - Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is signaling that a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., will probably become the new home for scores of terrorism suspects now housed at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Officials from the White House, Defense Department, and US Bureau of Prisons spent two hours last week briefing more than a dozen members of the Illinois delegation in the office of the Senate majority whip, Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois. To reassure skeptical Republicans, they emphasized security. Although the officials left open the possibility that another site could be chosen, participants emerged from the session convinced that the US government will buy the largely unused $145 million Thomson Correctional Center, which was built in 2008. If all goes well, administration sources involved in closing the Guantanamo Bay prison anticipate a handover of the Thomson facility by late winter. It would then take several months to prepare the prison to a level “beyond supermax’’ and put the staff in place, according to federal estimates. Read More. |
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