About a dozen state officials were joined by 18 representatives from
the Defense, Justice and Homeland Security departments and the Bureau
of Prisons on the tour of the lockup in Standish, said Russ Marlan, a
spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.
The prison in Standish, 145 miles north of Detroit, and a military
penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., are being considered to house
the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters currently at
the Guantanamo Bay prison, if it is closed by 2010 as President Barack
Obama has ordered.
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