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How Three Hanging Corpses at Gitmo Went Unnoticed

By | 12.07.09 | 10:19 am

How did prison guards at Guantanamo overlook three men hanging from nooses in their cells for more than two hours, in what was supposed to be a super-high security prison housing “the worst of the worst” terrorists in the world?

White House to Make Illinois Prison ‘Beyond Supermax’ for Gitmo Detainees

By | 12.07.09 | 9:11 am

Officials in the Obama administration said they anticipate that if all goes as planned, the federal government will purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Northwest Illinois by late winter, and begin preparations to house terror suspects currently held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The administration then plans to get the More…

Prominent Illinois Lawyers Urge State Lawmakers to Permit Gitmo Detainees in Illinois Prisons

By | 11.30.09 | 4:55 pm

Former congressman and federal judge Abner J. Mikva and former Illinois U.S. Attorneys Thomas P. Sullivan and Dan K. Webb today sent a letter urging Illinois members of Congress and state officials to support the use of federal and state prisons, including the one in Thomson, Ill., to More…