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Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program--Don't Count On It.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program -- Don't Count On It By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Posted on December 17, 2009, Printed on December 17, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/144619/ The decision announced by the Obama administration this week to transfer some Guantánamo detainees to an empty supermax prison in northwestern Illinois has been portrayed as another step toward finally shutting down Guantánamo. But the more we learn about the government's plans for Thomson Correctional Center, the more it resembles a Bush-era blueprint to turn a rural Illinois community into a microcosm of the "War on Terror." Located just 15 miles from the Illinois compound operated by the notorious mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater, the prison will be refashioned to replicate some of Guantánamo's worst excesses -- namely, the military commissions process and indefinite "preventive" detention -- and largely staffed by U...continue to full post

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