Breaking: U.S. to buy Illinois prison in Thomson, Illinois

By GottaLaff

It was an almost done-deal, and now it is a done done-deal. Via an e-mail alert:

The Obama administration plans to purchase a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., regardless of whether Congress allows terrorism suspects to be transferred there, a Department of Justice official said today.

In a letter to a member of the Illinois delegation to Congress, Assistant Atty. Gen. Ronald Weich spelled out the administration's intent to go ahead with plans to buy the near-empty Thomson prison, even if lawmakers refuse to approve its use as a new home for detainees at the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

More soon at: http://www.latimes.com

They could always convert it into a Supersized Wal-Mart. That would get Rushpublic support.