U.S. Congress Kills Plans To Expand U.S. Prisons So They Can House Terrorist Suspects Now Held In Guantánamo Bay

(Reuters: Brennan Liynsle)

Expansion Of Prisons To House Gitmo Detainees Rejected In House -- The Hill

The House on Tuesday evening defeated a Democratic attempt to let the government spend money to expand U.S. prisons so they can house terrorist suspects now held in Guantánamo Bay.

Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) proposed an amendment to the military construction spending bill for 2014 that would kill language prohibiting funds from being used to expand U.S. prisons for this purpose.

Language in the bill, H.R. 2216, holds that "none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense in this Act may be used to construct, renovate, or expand any facility in the United States, its territories, or possessions to house any individual detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the purposes of detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the control of the Department of Defense."

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My Comment: One more reason why I know that Gitmo's detainees are not going to be leaving their prison cells in Guantanamo to the U.S. mainland in the foreseeable future.