A few US cities hope to host Gitmo transplants

In this Nov. 13, 2005, photo maintenance employees replace a burned out light in a hallway inside the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Ill. Marion's mayor, Robert Butler, is hoping to take in Guantanamo detainees which would require persuading the Bureau of Prisons to restore his town's medium-security prison to its former high-security status. Once the nation's most secure prison, the federal lockup in southern Illinois has housed everyone from spies to a Colombian druglord to dapper mob boss John Gotti. Now the mayor of Marion hopes to roll out the welcome mat for a new set of accused criminals: Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects. While other cities across the U.S. have balked at taking in any of the more than 200 detainees from the infamous lockup in Cuba that President Barack Obama hopes to shutter, Marion is part of... [read full story]                    

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