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...prospect of losing its prison has put the city of Standish, pop. 1,400 (excluding inmates), on edge. Nearly two decades ago, the town's residents were torn about whether the prison should even be built. But it quickly became an alternative to the dwindling auto industry. It's currently the city's largest employer, and the facility accounts for roughly 35% of the city's budget. Now prison guards are dreading the prospect of commuting five hours a day to the nearest job, if they can find one, or leaving Michigan altogether...
...years, says most of his constituents want domestic inmates. But accepting detainees from Guantánamo Bay, he says, "is a whole different ball of wax." At community meetings in recent months, King says he has made the point to skeptics that terrorists have long been housed at U.S. prisons, and "you can't recite one terrorist attack by people trying to get out." He says he has received assurances from federal officials that should detainees be brought to Standish, no land near the prison would be seized to expand the facility. But the prison would largely be managed...
Still, King wants whatever business his town can get. With the number of empty homes in Standish rising, when the prison closes, he says, "it's going to snowball." Says King, after returning home from his teaching job one recent evening: "The No. 1 option is to keep the prison open. It doesn't really matter who pays the bills...
...worked with two other men on various plans designed to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" U.S. citizens and soldiers from 2001 to 2008. He will be held in federal custody pending a detention hearing on Oct. 30. If he is found guilty, Mehanna faces up to 15 years in prison. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...about Daniel J. Maldonado, a Methuen, Mass., resident who was suspected of training at a terrorist camp of al-Qaeda's and plotting to overthrow the Somali government. Maldonado later admitted to training with al-Qaeda and is now serving a 10-year prison sentence...