Guantanamo detainees move to Illinois
Published:Monday | November 16, 2009 | 9:22 AM
The Obama administration is considering moving some Guantanamo detainees to a prison in the President\'s home state of Illinois.
Administration officials are expected to visit the near empty, top security Thomson Correctional Center, west of Chicago in the next day or so.
President Obama has pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay camp by January 22.
Reports about relocating inmates come a day after plans were announced to try five men over the 9/11 attacks.
The Thomson prison, built by Illinois State in 2001 with 1,600 maximum security cells, has been dogged by budget problems.
According to the jail’s website, only its minimum security unit with 200 beds is currently open.