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Feds Tour Mich. Prison Eyed as New Gitmo

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(Newser) – Obama administration officials are traveling to Michigan today to visit a maximum-security prison that could be used to hold some or all of the 229 terrorism suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, reports the Detroit News. Members of the Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security Departments are all touring the facility. Local politicians are anxious that the prison may close without the influx of new detainees.

Standish prison employs more than 300 people, the largest in the region, and city officials warn of dire economic consequences if the facility closes. Many locals are skittish about an influx from Guantanamo, with one resident warning that "jihadists love soft targets." But one state legislator dismissed their concerns: "I don't believe they are super human beings or any more dangerous than the Crips and the Bloods."

President Barack Obama caps his pen after he signed an executive order closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
President Barack Obama caps his pen after he signed an executive order closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Razor wire lines a fence in the Camp 4 detention facility on the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Razor wire lines a fence in the Camp 4 detention facility on the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn in the Camp 4 detention facility on the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008.
Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn in the Camp 4 detention facility on the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Paul Piche, a corrections officer at Standish Maximum Correctional Facility, holds placard demanding the recall of Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 in Standish, Mich.
Paul Piche, a corrections officer at Standish Maximum Correctional Facility, holds placard demanding the recall of Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 in Standish, Mich.   (AP Photo/John Flesher)
A Navy officer replaces an official picture of George W. Bush with that of Barack Obama in the lobby of the headquarters of the US Naval Station, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
A Navy officer replaces an official picture of George W. Bush with that of Barack Obama in the lobby of the headquarters of the US Naval Station, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
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Reader64481089
Aug 13, 09 6:44 AM CDT
And if their little terrorist buddies want to cause problems they best remember you get to bring ass to get ass, they will not make it past Detroit's east side LMAO Reply
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Ucantusethatname
Aug 13, 09 6:44 AM CDT
Great idea. If Michigan can't make cars, it could still make license plates. Reply
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Reader64481089
Aug 13, 09 7:19 AM CDT
Seriously? These clowns will never get outside cells except 30 minutes to walk around a small fenced pen. Michigan has so damn many prisons now it isn't even funny, this will just keep one more from being closed in the collapsed budget Michigan is struggling under but I was most serious, I doubt their friends who might want to cause problems would make it past the East Side of Detroit. God doesn't even venture into the East Side without escort
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aprilfool
Aug 13, 09 9:02 AM CDT
Standish, MI is a far cry from Detroit-- it's a very small town that's essentially where the freeway ends and the rural part of northeastern Michigan begins. A hypothetical escapee would be a million times more likely to run into a deer than a gang banger. Reply
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BeatBlaster
Aug 13, 09 11:41 AM CDT
Regardless - once you get into the boonies in Michigan you'd better have your stuff together cause it ain't nice out there!
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