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Feds to buy Illinois prison even without detainees
March 18, 2010 14:03 EDT
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal official says the Obama administration wants to buy a nearly vacant prison in northwestern Illinois even if Guantanamo Bay detainees aren't transferred there.
The Department of Justice official spelled out the administration's plan in a letter released Thursday by Republican Congressman Don Manzullo's office.
The government wants to buy the Thomson Correctional Center to help relieve federal prison overcrowding and use it as a home for some detainees. Obama has promised to close the U.S. detention facility in Cuba.
Manzullo spokesman Rich Carter says the congressman supports using the prison to house federal inmates but not detainees.
Supporters say selling the prison to the federal government could spur economic growth desperately needed in the farming community where the prison is located about 150 miles west of Chicago.
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House Dems on track for vote on health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats are pushing toward passage of a landmark $940 billion health care overhaul bill.
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IN THE NEWS: VIACOM/YOUTUBE BEEF GOES PUBLIC
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Talk about hanging your dirty laundry in public -- and that of your feuding neighbor, to boot.
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DEAR MR. PRESIDENT
MONROE, Mich. (AP) -- Jennifer Cline has a new pen pal -- President Barack Obama.
