AlterNET: One of the main arguments put forward by Obama’s critics is that the U.S. prison system can’t handle terrorist detainees. On CNN yesterday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) said that he didn’t think that U.S. prison facilities “could keep some of these detainees secure, at the same time, protecting the surrounding communities.” When CNN’s Kiran Chetry noted that “a number of people who have been convicted on terrorism-related charges in U.S. courts” have “been held in our U.S. prisons,” Inhofe argued that “those individuals who are actually criminals, they actually committed crimes and were not involved in the type of — in the type of terrorist activity as we’ve been experiencing in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) argued on Monday night that if detainees were transferred to U.S. prisons, American prison guards would “have no idea what they’re getting into.” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) responded on the Senate floor yesterday, saying that Bennett “ought to have a little more respect for the men and women who are corrections officers.” “The reality is that we’re holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons,” Durbin said. [ READ MORE ]

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