Illinois prison eyed for Gitmo detainees
Source: Maximum-security site is leading option to house suspects
updated 7:07 a.m. ET, Sun., Nov . 15, 2009
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…
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