Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm told reporters Tuesday the state hopes Pennsylvania will send some of its inmates to Michigan. Michigan also is in talks with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and will try again to get California to send inmates its way.
(AP) -- LANSING, Mich. - Michigan still is in the hunt for federal prisoners and those from other states to fill its shuttered prisons - just not Guantanamo detainees.
Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm told reporters Tuesday the state hopes Pennsylvania will send some of its inmates to Michigan.
Michigan also is in talks with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and will try again to get California to send inmates its way.
The federal government plans to acquire an underused state prison in Thomson, Ill., to house some terrorist suspects now being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Federal officials looking for places to house the Guantanamo detainees toured the prison in Standish in August. Granholm says they never discussed after that about using the now-closed prison.
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