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Montana Town wants Gitmo Detainees

By Chris

The town of Hardin, Mont., wants to fill its new $27 million prison and provide jobs for its 3,400 residents. Its proposed solution: take on the prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. President Obama announced the closing of the controversial detention center as one of his first presidential acts. This has raised questions as to where the prisoners there will go. The Hardin city council voted 5-0 last month in support of a proposal to brings the prisoners to the Two Rivers Regional Correctional Facility, according to CNN. The state of the art prison was opened in 2007, but has yet to hold a single prisoner. Employees hired to work there have since been laid off. Despite the town’s enthusiasm, their congressional representatives are less optimistic...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Criminal Defense Blog on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).