President Obama has promised to close Guantanamo Bay by the end of his first year in office, and as that date rapidly approaches, the question arises: what will be done with the prisoners?
Many advocates for the prisoner's rights argue that they should all be tried in a federal court on American soil and be given fair punishments for their crimes. Many disagree, telling of how the criminals at Guantanamo Bay are a completely different brand and should be treated much differently and, in most cases, more harshly than the average miscreant.
But the idea that some of the prisoners should be kept in prison indefinitely is one that has faced and continues to face a good amount of opposition. However, no matter who is in the maximum security prison, if they ever want to be free again they still have a very long way to go.
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