Obama team tours Michigan prison as possible Guantanamo alternative

[babylonsister]

Obama team tours Michigan prison as possible Guantánamo alternative

BY CAROL ROSENBERG
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Demonstrating that it's still determined to bring Guantánamo captives to U.S. soil, the Obama administration on Wednesday sent a team to inspect a remote maximum-security prison in Michigan as a potential alternative to its prison camps in Cuba.

The Thursday morning tour by officials from the Pentagon, Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, and the Bureau of Prisons marks the first official site survey since President Barack Obama on Jan. 22 ordered his Cabinet to close the controversial prison camps within the year.

Since then, politicians from many communities with jails and prisons that might be pressed into service have systematically tried to block the camps' closure.

But tiny rural Standish, Mich., 145 miles northwest of Detroit has been less resistant. Its 19-year-old, 600-bed state-run Standish Maximum Correctional Facility is being mothballed as extra prison space and the community is eager to keep it open for the water and sewage revenues it might bring.

``This visit is intended only to gather information about the facility,'' an Obama administration official, who was not authorized to discuss the trip, told The Miami Herald. ``Multiple options are being considered.''

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1183450.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. I think it's a bad move to back down

President Obama should put the Guantanamo detainees in Leavenworth Kansas, make recess appointments for any nominee placed on hold by the assholes Brownback and Roberts, and just tell them to fuck themselves.

[erinlough]

2. I think Michigan will take them, hell

we have absolutely nothing going on now. There might be a few jobs and bucks in it for us. Sorry, but I'm pretty sad for this great state I live in. I don't think we can afford to pass on any opportunity.

Something is better then nothing.......isn't it?

[vaberella]

3. This still won't shut up the people on DU you believe O will never close down Gitmo. n/t

[jenmito]

4. A RW caller on C-Span said, abour this, if we allow "terrorists" in our prisons, they'll escape

and kill hundreds of innocent people and THEN the Obama admin. will be sorry. :eyes: