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Supermax prisons not super enough?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Supermax Prisons in U.S. Already Hold Terrorists By Carrie Johnson and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, May 22, 2009 In news conferences, speeches and debates this week, lawmakers from both parties, as well as the director of the FBI, have sounded alarms about moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to federal prisons, where they could launch riots, hatch radical plots or somehow be released among the populace. "No good purpose is served by allowing known terrorists, who trained at terrorist training camps, to come to the U.S. to live among us," said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.). Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) said Tuesday, before saying he was open to changing his position, "Part of what we don't want is them be put in prisons in the United States...continue to full post

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