US to review Colorado prisons for Guantanamo detainees, A aggregation from the U.S. Defense Department will appointment both a accompaniment and a federal bastille in Colorado to appraise their accessible use for apartment detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, chief U.S. admiral said Friday.
The appointment comes as the Obama administering struggles to shut down the Guantanamo apprehension centermost and acquisition a area aural the U.S. to abode its detainees. Aural the next two weeks, the aggregation will appointment the Colorado Accompaniment Penitentiary in Canon City and a medium-security federal bastille in Florence, admiral said.
The Pentagon aggregation aswell has surveyed the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina. The reviews appraise architecture costs and added changes bare to abode the detainees and conduct aggressive agency trials.
In Colorado, the medium-security ability is on the aforementioned area as the maximum-security bastille accepted as Supermax. It would charge upgrades, said Cmdr. Gary Ross, a Pentagon spokesman.
"These efforts are constant with our charge to alive with Congress to abutting Guantanamo, and are advised to advice acquaint Congress of how we can accommodated this ambition and what it will cost," Ross said.
Closing the Guantanamo Bay apprehension centermost has been a top antecedence for President Barack Obama, but the accomplishment has faced hurdles, including allegiant action a part of both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
There are 114 detainees currently in the apprehension center, and 53 are acceptable for transfer. The actual 61 accept been accounted too alarming to absolution to addition country. Finding countries to yield the detainees has aswell been difficult because the transfers cannot be accustomed unless admiral accept the detainees will not acknowledgment to agitation or the battlefield aloft absolution and that there is a host country accommodating to yield them and agreement they will defended them.
Legislation affective through Congress would absorb and, in some cases, access accepted restrictions on appointment detainees out of the U.S. aggressive bastille at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The bill continues to ban the alteration of detainees to the United States or architecture to abode them on U.S. soil. It aswell calls on the White Abode to forward Congress a plan on how it affairs to abutting the ability and handle approaching detainees.
Colorado's Supermax, dubbed "Alcatraz of the Rockies," already houses terrorists. The prison's 420 or so citizenry cover Zacarias Moussaoui, the alone being bedevilled in noncombatant cloister of the September 11 attacks, and Ramzi Yousef, administrator of the 1993 World Trade Centermost bombing. The Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was transferred to Supermax in July.
The accompaniment prison, amid about 10 afar from the federal complex, has been abandoned back 2012. The accompaniment shuttered the all-solitary-confinement bastille because of crumbling bastille population.
Colorado's aldermanic Republicans bound vowed to action the transfer.
"I alarm on the Obama Administering to anon arrest any application of this capricious idea," said Republican Sen. Cory Gardner.
Colorado's Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper was added measured.
A backer said Hickenlooper "wants to accept a abounding compassionate of the costs, accident and impacts for Colorado."
The appointment comes as the Obama administering struggles to shut down the Guantanamo apprehension centermost and acquisition a area aural the U.S. to abode its detainees. Aural the next two weeks, the aggregation will appointment the Colorado Accompaniment Penitentiary in Canon City and a medium-security federal bastille in Florence, admiral said.
The Pentagon aggregation aswell has surveyed the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina. The reviews appraise architecture costs and added changes bare to abode the detainees and conduct aggressive agency trials.
In Colorado, the medium-security ability is on the aforementioned area as the maximum-security bastille accepted as Supermax. It would charge upgrades, said Cmdr. Gary Ross, a Pentagon spokesman.
"These efforts are constant with our charge to alive with Congress to abutting Guantanamo, and are advised to advice acquaint Congress of how we can accommodated this ambition and what it will cost," Ross said.
Closing the Guantanamo Bay apprehension centermost has been a top antecedence for President Barack Obama, but the accomplishment has faced hurdles, including allegiant action a part of both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
There are 114 detainees currently in the apprehension center, and 53 are acceptable for transfer. The actual 61 accept been accounted too alarming to absolution to addition country. Finding countries to yield the detainees has aswell been difficult because the transfers cannot be accustomed unless admiral accept the detainees will not acknowledgment to agitation or the battlefield aloft absolution and that there is a host country accommodating to yield them and agreement they will defended them.
Legislation affective through Congress would absorb and, in some cases, access accepted restrictions on appointment detainees out of the U.S. aggressive bastille at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The bill continues to ban the alteration of detainees to the United States or architecture to abode them on U.S. soil. It aswell calls on the White Abode to forward Congress a plan on how it affairs to abutting the ability and handle approaching detainees.
Colorado's Supermax, dubbed "Alcatraz of the Rockies," already houses terrorists. The prison's 420 or so citizenry cover Zacarias Moussaoui, the alone being bedevilled in noncombatant cloister of the September 11 attacks, and Ramzi Yousef, administrator of the 1993 World Trade Centermost bombing. The Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was transferred to Supermax in July.
The accompaniment prison, amid about 10 afar from the federal complex, has been abandoned back 2012. The accompaniment shuttered the all-solitary-confinement bastille because of crumbling bastille population.
Colorado's aldermanic Republicans bound vowed to action the transfer.
"I alarm on the Obama Administering to anon arrest any application of this capricious idea," said Republican Sen. Cory Gardner.
Colorado's Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper was added measured.
A backer said Hickenlooper "wants to accept a abounding compassionate of the costs, accident and impacts for Colorado."
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