AP: White House: IL prison eyed for Guantanamo inmates

Nice to see that even when it comes to deciding where terrorists are going to live once we bring them to America, Illinois is still the beneficiary of Barack Obama's cronyism.

Tammy Webber (The Associated Press) writes:

CHICAGO – The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.

The maximum-security Thomson Correctional Facility, about 150 miles west of Chicago, was one of several evaluated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and emerged as a leading option to house the detainees, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because a decision has not been made.

President Barack Obama wants detainees from the controversial military-run detention center in Cuba to be transferred to U.S. soil so they can be prosecuted for their suspected crimes.

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