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Are federal supermax prisons tough enough for terrorist detainees?

By Douglas A. Berman

According to this new AP article, which is headlined "Obama says US prisons tough enough for detainees,"President Obama views federal supermax prisons to be tough enough for government work.  Here is part of an AP report on the President's security speech today: President Barack Obama said Thursday some of the terror suspects held at Guantanamo would be brought to prisons in the United States despite fierce opposition in Congress. He promised to work with lawmakers to develop a system for imprisoning detainees who can't be tried and can't be turned loose. "There are no neat or easy answers here," Obama said in a speech in which he pledged anew to "clean up the mess at Guantanamo" that he said the nation had inherited from the Bush administration...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).