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Colorado: Supermax

May 21, 2009 - 10:21 am
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Senate votes no on Gitmo

By Michael Riley

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday resoundingly rejected an effort to spend $80 million to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and relocate the terrorism suspects, possibly to U.S. prisons.

Considered a setback for President Barack Obama and his pledge to close the prison by January, the vote ended a day of crossed signals and Democratic infighting, including a dust-up between California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Colorado lawmakers.

The future of the detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has Democrats increasingly on the defensive over the fates of the 240 terrorism suspects detained there.

In a floor speech before Wednesday's 90-7 Senate vote, Feinstein said she knew of one federal facility

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that would be a perfect fit — Supermax prison in Florence, Colo.

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January 30, 2009 - 02:32 pm
NEWS FEED: ColoradoPols.com

Gazette Debunks GOP Gitmo Freakout

By Colorado Pols

It's refreshing to see the conservative Colorado Springs Gazette not catching the local GOP's collective vapors over the possibility that some detainees from Guantanamo Bay might be relocated to Florence's ultra-high security federal prison, Supermax.
Republican lawmakers pounced...gathering 35 signatures on a petition asserting that the nearly 250 Guantanamo detainees, many of them accused of membership in terrorist groups, would threaten "the safety and security of the communities in which they will ultimately be housed."

The petition, which was sent to Ritter this week, also expresses "grave concern about the economic and security risks that the relocation of Guantanamo detainees to Colorado pose for our state and local communities.

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