Terre Haute, IN now home to terrorist prison unit

The Justice Department has quietly opened a new prison unit in Indiana that houses a hodgepodge of second-tier terrorism inmates, most of them Arab Muslims, whose ability to communicate with the outside world has been tightly restricted.

At the Communications Management Unit, or CMU, in Terre Haute all telephone calls and mail are monitored, the number of phone calls is limited and visits are restricted to a total of four hours per month, according to special rules enforced by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. All inmate conversations must be conducted in English unless otherwise negotiated.

The unit appears to be a less restrictive version of the supermaximum facility in Florence, Colo., which holds some of the United States’ most notorious terrorists, including al-Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui and Unabomber Theodore Kacszynski.

The Indiana unit, by contrast, is part of a medium-security facility and includes inmates set to be released in as little as two years. Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley said the unit’s population will not be limited to inmates convicted of terrorism-related cases, though all of the current prisoners fit that definition.

Prison officials said they already seek to fully monitor the mail and other communications of all 213 “terrorist inmates” in the system. “By concentrating resources in this fashion, it will greatly enhance the agency’s capabilities for language translation, content analysis and intelligence sharing,” the bureau said in a summary of the CMU.


http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16781839.htm

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or are these more poor schmoes who "get" to rest in government facilities while awaiting their day in court (in the far far distant future)?

What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
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maybe the same thing that happened to the idea of rehabilitation in prison, not three strikes and you're out...

They were convicted of. Are these the guys from Buffalo, N.Y. or California?