An aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center is seen in Thomson , Ill. The Thomson Correctional Center was one of several potential sites evaluated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons but has emerged as a leading option to house detainees held at Navy-run prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
- An aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center is seen in Thomson , Ill. The Thomson Correctional Center was one of several potential sites evaluated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons but has emerged as a leading option to house detainees held at Navy-run prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
- The interior of the Thomson facility.(AP Photo/The Dispatch, Todd Mizener)
- In this undated photo, the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., is seen. A White House official says the Obama administration is considering buying the northwestern Illinois prison to house a limited number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, along with federal inmates. (AP Photo/The Dispatch, Todd Mizener)
- In this undated photo, the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., is seen. A White House official says the Obama administration is considering buying the northwestern Illinois prison to house a limited number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, along with federal inmates. (AP Photo/The Dispatch, Todd Mizener)
- Michael Stone makes a delivery in downtown Thomson. (AP Photo/M. Spencer
- Todd Baker's Bait Shop in Thomson shows the rural nature of the community.(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
- In this file photo taken Thursday, May 14, 2009 and reviewed by the U.S. military, Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire inside the exercise yard at Camp 4 detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
- Bureau of prisons director Harley Lappin speaks at a news conference after federal officials toured the Thomson Correctional Center and met with members of the community, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, in Thomson, Ill. The federal government is considering buying the Illinois prison to turn it into a federal prison that also would hold the Guantanamo Bay detainees. (AP Photo/(M. Spencer Green)
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