AP sources: Military-civilian terror prison eyed (in the U.S.)

[Turborama]

Source: AP

The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.

Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

The officials outlined the plans — the latest effort to comply with President Barack Obama's order to close the prison camp by Jan. 22, 2010, and satisfy congressional and public fears about incarcerating terror suspects on American soil — on condition of anonymity because the options are under review.

White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said Friday that no decisions have been made about the proposal. But the White House considers the courtroom-prison complex as the best among a series of bad options, an administration official said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090802/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_guantanamo_detainees

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More details on this at the link above...

Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks: http://tinyurl.com/ln3ef9

Standish, Mich., Maximum Correctional Facility: http://tinyurl.com/len83g

[qazplm]

1. problem with the DB is they just dont have much room

they are probably at 80-90 percent capacity already. There IS space to build a couple more pods, but that takes years to do usually.

[ixion]

2. one-stop shopping for justice?

we should be so proud. :sarcasm:

[steven johnson]

3. It's time to close the flagship of Bush-Cheney torture nt

[No Elephants]

4. How about Bagram?

[Heidi]

5. New Detainee Site In U.S. Considered

Source: Washington Post

New Detainee Site In U.S. Considered
Facility Would Contain Courtrooms, House Some Guantanamo Prisoners

Monday, August 3, 2009

The administration is considering whether to transfer some detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a facility in the United States that would contain courtrooms to hold federal criminal trials and military commissions to prosecute terrorism suspects, administration officials said Sunday.

The maximum-security facility would be jointly run by the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security, with each assuming responsibility for different sets of inmates. Officials said such a facility could also house prisoners held in indefinite detention and those cleared for release but who have no country willing to accept them. Those convicted in federal court or military commissions could serve their terms there.

Officials said administration planners looking for one site for the facility have focused on the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and a state maximum-security prison in Standish, Mich., that is scheduled to be closed.

An administration official confirmed that the ideas, which were first reported by the Associated Press on Sunday, have been debated by an interagency task force examining detention policy, but stressed that they have not moved beyond that stage.


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/02/AR2009080202183.html