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CA: Valley is the best place for Gitmo prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Valley is the best place for Gitmo prison Wednesday, May. 27, 2009 By Bill McEwen / The Fresno Bee President Barack Obama has a problem, and I've got a solution. He wants to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center, but most American politicians don't want anything to do with housing suspected terrorists in their backyards. I say bring them on -- the detainees, not the politicians. If any region deserves a brand new supermax prison and the opportunity to keep some of the world's most dangerous figures under lock and key, it's the San Joaquin Valley. Let's face it: the Obama administration -- married as it is to environmental interests -- isn't going to send enough water this way to sustain agriculture, our lifeblood. But the president can show us some love and inject an estimated $1 billion a year into one of America's poorest economies by letting us help him shutter Gitmo...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).