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| Federal prison purchase draws ire in congress, praise in Illinois |
| By www.gsnmagazine.com - Mark Rockwell |
| Published: 10/03/2012 |
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The Obama administration’s decision to purchase a never-opened prison in northwestern Illinois for $165 million has powerful members of congress questioning whether the facility would be used to house terror detainees, while state representatives cheer its job-generating potential. In what the respective chairmen of the House Appropriations Committee and House Homeland security committee called an “unprecedented,” “defiant” move the White House directed the U.S. Justice Department to buy the Thomson Correctional Facility in Illinois on Oct. 2. Read More. |
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