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IL: Hard time for prison plan: U.S. now seems unlikely to house terror suspects at Thomson

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Hard time for prison plan: U.S. now seems unlikely to house terror suspects at Thomson By Katherine Skiba, Tribune reporter November 13, 2010 WASHINGTON ? A prison in tiny Thomson, Ill., captured the world attention's a year ago when White House officials called it a top candidate for housing terror suspects detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Today the 1,600-cell correctional center in northwest Illinois is empty. Federal officials still want to buy it ? if only for use as a penitentiary ? but the prospect of what critics assailed as "Gitmo North" appears a long shot, though it's one some Democrats won't rule out. For now, even Thomson's transformation into a federal penitentiary, at a potential cost of $237 million, is on hold until Congress approves the money...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 14, 2010 (boomark / email).