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Reporters get look inside southern Illinois prison
Vandalia :: OH :: USA | 4 months ago
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Ill. (AP) A southern Illinois prison has opened its doors to journalists in the wake of a watchdog group's 2011 report of overcrowding, flooding and crumbling and unsanitary basement dormitories. The minimum-security Vandalia Correctional Center
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Report: Planned Illinois prison closing could spur crowding
Lincoln :: NE :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The Illinois Department of Corrections says the planned closure of a central Illinois prison could mean 1,500 inmates would be housed in prison gyms. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register (http://bit.ly/nPzzfO) reports the department detailed the
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Liberals find backing in poll numbers
Upi :: Philippines | over 3 years ago
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Progressive groups, worried that Democrats are too cautious, are speaking the language that lawmakers may hear clearest: poll numbers. After Republican Scott Brown's election to the Senate in Massachusetts on Jan. 19, a coalition of liberal groups
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Federal Government Will Buy Illinois Prison for Gitmo Transfers
Chicago :: IL :: USA | over 3 years ago
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The entrance is seen to the Thomson Correctional Center on Nov. 15, 2009 in Thomson, Ill. (David Greedy/Getty Images) After deciding last month to move a “limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees” into the Thomson Correctional Center, the Obama
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Chicago Tribune endorsements
Illinois :: IL :: USA | over 3 years ago
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Senate features a handful of unknowns with little money and even less political experience scrambling to paint the front runner -- longtime Congressman Mark Kirk -- as a liberal in conservative clothes. More ... Jan. 11, 2010 – Politicians who
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Ill. Town Welcomes Guantanamo Detainees
Pontiac :: IL :: USA | over 3 years ago
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The prospect of housing Guantanamo detainees on U.S. soil gives some people pause. But most folks in Thomson, Ill., welcome anyone to fill the $128 million maximum-security prison that has stood near empty there for eight years. "We're hoping this is
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Rhetorical outrage
Thompson :: Canada | over 3 years ago
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For a while it looked like Kansas' Leavenworth prison might house the infamous prisoners, but that was before the state's representatives raised a ruckus about it...Other elected officials from other states echoed those concerns, shouting that they
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Draft Order Could Send Gitmo Detainees to Illinois
Cuba :: IL :: USA | over 3 years ago
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The White House has drafted an order that, if finalized, could be used to send detainees remaining at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a prison in President Obama's home state of Illinois. The memo, first reported by BigGovernment.
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Despite GOP Opposition Obama Administration Might Move Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Illinois Prison!!
Despite concerns raised by congressional Republicans, the Obama administration might go ahead and move scores of terror suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to the state prison of Illinois in rural Thomson. That'
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Quinn expects action 'rather quickly' on Thomson
Havana :: IL :: USA | over 3 years ago
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Gov. Pat�Quinn said Monday he expects swift action on a proposal to sell a northwestern Illinois prison to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees, while a leading Republican critic, Congressman Mark Kirk, moderated his rhetoric on
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