Some 98 Bureau of Prisons facilities that already have prisoners “with a history or connection to terrorism” — there 377 inmates nationwide — could be used for the 166 terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the General Accountability Office said in a report last week. Six facilities rum by the Department of Defense could also be suited, the report said.
“This report demonstrates that if the political will exists, we could finally close Guantanamo without imperiling our national security,” U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said in releasing the report. She chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“But the report also makes clear that it’s not as simple as moving the detainees from one holding facility to another: Not only would the law have to change, but non-terrorism prisoners would likely have to be moved, and the federal prisons are already seriously overcrowded,” Wired’s Danger Room reports.
Map below is from the GAO report. It shows Bureau of Prisons facilities (above minimum-security) and notes those holding prisoners “with a history or connection to terrorism.”
