Gitmo to Thomson??
The story is about a week old, but there’s a good chance if you live in the Midwest, people will still be talking about this topic at your next get together – the prisoners from Gitmo are scheduled to be transported to the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois. President Obama’s plan is to close the [...]
More Gitmo Depth
President Obama’s original deadline of January 2010 as the date to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison (known as “Gitmo”) has been pushed back as Congress continues to do what they do best – debate on issues while failing to come to any clear conclusions. Another Gitmo-related story this week suggests that a federal prison in Illinois [...]
Gitmo Location
Gitmo (the short pronunciation for GTMO, or the naval facility in Guantanamo Bay), still in the news on occasion, is a controversial detention center run by the United States. A future post will discuss the center in depth, but I promised some geography lessons in these posts (mostly for my own sake), so the point here [...]
