Illinois gets terror lockup
U.S. buying state prison for Guantanamo transfers
Posted: December 16, 2009 at 4:38 a.m.
The Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., is expected to house no more than 100 detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire an underused state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects now held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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