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Planned prisoner transfer getting lots of attention...

By Douglas A. Berman

because it involves moving the terror suspects from Gitmo to Illinois.  How Appealing collected links to much of the major news coverage in this post yesterday, and today a lot of the buzz is about political debates (and posturing) surrounding the decision.  This item from the New York Times, which is headlined "From Guantánamo to Beyond ?Supermax?," provides a prison perspective on this matter. Here are excerpts: On Tuesday, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn received a letter informing him that President Obama plans to transfer terrorism suspects currently held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to a little-used prison in a rural part of his home state.... The letter informed Governor Quinn that, as my colleague Charlie Savage reported on Monday, President Obama has directed the federal government to proceed with acquiring the Thomson Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison in a rural village about 150 miles west of Chicago...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 16, 2009 (boomark / email).