Ill. prison to get Gitmo detainees

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By HENRY C. JACKSON, Associated Press Writer Henry C. Jackson, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 34 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo.

Administration officials as well as Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn will make an official announcement at the White House.

Officials from both the White House and Durbin's office confirmed that President Barack Obama had directed the government to acquire Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., a sleepy town near the Mississippi River about 150 miles from Chicago

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This move is gonna be expensive. I say put em in a bus, lock em down and drive thier dirty asses to IL. Why does it have to cost so much. Once they get there put them in the regular prison. There I have just saved the US thousands of $'s. Plus I will guarentee that several of those camel jockies won't last till spring. Even our bad guys don't like em.