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Nov 16, 2009 10:47 pm US/Central

Good To Know: Terror Suspects As Neighbors? Sure!

Reporting
Don Shelby
(WCCO) Plans are being considered to move prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to empty prisons inside the United States. Don Shelby says the idea has started a bidding war for the right to house terrorists.

There is an old, overused term called "NIMBY." It stands for "Not In My Back Yard." We hear it when someone wants to build, among other things, a power plant or a prison.

Not in this economy. In towns where unemployment rates are steady above 10 percent, there also happens to be some empty correctional facilities. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin wants 100 of the detainees for the empty Thomson prison in the northwest part of his state.

Hardin, Mont. wants in. Marion, Ill., Standish, Mich. and Florence, Colo. They're throwing open their empty prison doors to house the soon-to-be homeless detainees from the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns, as well as domestic terrorism suspects.

The promise of pumping a billion dollars into the local economy and creating 3,000 jobs over four years is up for dispute. What isn't is that these are some tough times.

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