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Illinois prison seen as pick for detainees

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 5:34 a.m.

The Obama administration is set to announce today that it has picked the Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois to house some detainees now held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an administration official said Monday night.

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