Guantanamo of the Rockies?

[struggle4progress]

If Obama gets his way, some Guantanamo detainees could be sent to Florence, Colo., and the United States' only super-maximun security prison. It is where -- as one judge told a prisoner -- "you will die with a whimper.
June 14, 2009
BY KEVIN JOHNSON

... The Florence supermax is based on isolation. For 23 hours each day, inmates are locked away in small, self-contained cells. When they are permitted their hour of exercise, they are shackled and escorted to individual cages to walk where there are limited views of the outdoors.

A measure of the facility's stark environment was offered by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema three years ago when she sentenced convicted al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui to spend the rest of his life there.

"To paraphrase the poet T.S. Eliot, you will die with a whimper. You will never again get a chance to speak," the judge said.

Attorney Ronald Kuby, who has represented about a dozen clients who have served time at the Colorado facility, described the isolated environment there as "inhuman and soul destroying" ...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1621200,CST-NWS-prison14.article

[Buzz Clik]

1. Transferred from a prison under military to control to one under civilian control

To close Gitmo, the prisoners must be moved.

[CanonRay]

2. I've been inside

and I would describe the phrase "soul destroying" as 100% accurate. The guards are the most professional and competent I've ever encountered. They know they have the most dangerous people in the world, and treat them accordingly. It scared the hell out of me, and I was only taking a tour.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. "Land of the free, home of the brave"

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I don't think so.