Rural prison could house Guantanamo inmates
The US government may buy a nearly-empty prison in rural Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with other inmates.
The maximum-security Thomson Correctional Facility, about 150 miles west of Barack Obama’s adopted home town of Chicago, was one of several considered by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and emerged as a leading option to house the terror suspects, a White House spokesman said.
