| Remember all the hysteria over the possibility of moving some Guantanamo detainees to Standish, MI?
Well, Pete Hoekstra & Mike Rogers can breathe a sigh of relief -- no more than 100 detainees will be transferred to the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, IL. Located about 150 miles from Chicago, the 1,600 cell maximum security facility currently houses 200 minimum-security inmates.
[skip] in Thomson many have welcomed the prospect as a potential economic engine. Thomson Village President Jerry Hebeler, was asleep when the word came that Thomson had been chosen.
"It's news to me, but then I'm always the last to know anything," Hebeler said Monday night of the news affecting his town of 450 residents. "It'll be good for the village and the surrounding area, especially with all the jobs that have been lost here."
Hmmm. |
