Dick (Our troops are Nazis) Durbin:

“Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the assistant majority leader, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he would accept Guantanamo detainees in his home state as long as they were held in super-maximum prisons, where inmates are held 23 hours a day in small cells with slits for windows.

Moderator David Gregory asked: “Would you be OK with Al Qaeda prisoners – those currently at Guantanamo Bay – in a prison in Illinois?”

Durbin responded: “Well, I’d be OK with it in a supermax facility, because we’ve never had an escape from one.”

Well, that’s interesting since the majority of Americans do NOT want Gitmo terrorists anywhere but Gitmo.

Of course the idea of placing terrorist in any domestic jail population is ridiculous. As we’ve seen Al Qaeda is already recruiting from within our jail populations. Secondly for the bleeding hearts who want the terrorists “comfortable”, a Supermax prison stay would be a step down from their digs at Gitmo.

How much? Here’s life in the typical Supermax:

“In SHU, prisoners are generally allowed out of their cells for only one hour a day; often they are kept in solitary confinement. They receive their meals through ports, also known as “chuck holes,” in the doors of their cells. When Supermax inmates are allowed to exercise, this may take place in a small, enclosed area where the prisoner will exercise alone.

Prisoners are under constant surveillance, usually with closed-circuit television cameras. Cell doors are usually opaque, while the cells may be windowless. Conditions are spartan, with poured concrete or metal furniture common. Often cell walls, and sometimes plumbing, are soundproofed to prevent communication between the inmates.”

By comparison life at Gitmo: Delroy Murdoch back in the supposed bad times in 2005 wrote:

“Journalists and Bushophobes should stop crying for these Islamo-fascists long enough to read a largely overlooked Pentagon document on Guantanamo detainees. They appear pampered, chatty, and lethal.

“Americans are very kind people,” one English-challenged detainee said in the March 4 paper. “If people say there is mistreatment in Cuba with the detainees, those type speaking are wrong, they treat us like a Muslim not a detainee.”

“I’m in good health and have good facilities of eating, drinking, living, and playing,” remarked another. “The food is good, the bedrooms are clean and the health care is very good.”

In a February 16 Gitmo dispatch, an American Forces Press Service report described the treatment of Camp Delta’s roughly 520 detainees from about 40 nations. Troublemakers wear prison-style orange jumpsuits and mainly are confined to rudimentary accommodations. But those who follow camp rules wear white outfits and exercise seven to nine hours daily, often playing soccer and volleyball. In quieter moments, “chess, checkers and playing cards are the most requested items,” Rhem wrote. As for reading, “A security official explained Agatha Christie books in Arabic are very popular and that camp officials are working to get copies of Harry Potter books in Arabic.”

Detainees eat culturally sensitive meals and follow arrows painted on dorm floors to face Mecca. “Prayer calls are broadcast over loudspeakers five times a day,” Rhem added.

Conditions and considerations wouldn’t come close that this in a Supermax facility.

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