Poll: 51% in Illinois oppose prison for Gitmo detainees in state

In August, there were similar findings in Michigan. Half of that state’s voters (50%) were opposed to a proposal to house inmates from Guantanamo at a soon-to-be-closed state prison 145 miles north of Detroit. Thirty-nine percent (39%) favored the plan.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters nationally opposed housing Guantanamo prisoners in Michigan. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, a Democrat, supports selling the prison to the federal government for use as part of the president’s plan to close the prison camp for terrorists in Cuba. A joint state legislative committee is holding a public hearing on the proposal on Dec. 22, and Quinn said this week he expects a decision “very soon.”