A team will be looking at moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to civilian prisons in the U.S. as part of the Pentagon’s plan to close to the detention center, officials said Monday.
A six-person team was at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas last week to assess the cost of moving detainees to the U.S., including the cost of housing prisoners, holding commissions and supporting new troops who will work at the detention center, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said Monday.
The team will be looking at a military prison in Charleston, S.C., next week and is also expected to visit non-Defense sites, Davis said.
All cost assessments will be included in a Pentagon plan to close the prison, which is expected to be delivered to Congress after lawmakers return from August recess.
Members of Congress have already pushed back against the administration’s plan to move detainees to the U.S., which would require members to change the current law.
“Not on my watch will any terrorist be placed in Kansas,” Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said in a statement last week.
